Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives," the key man in writing tax laws is the chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, which handles all revenue-raising legislation. He has a pervasive influence on Government spending as well, since he can insist on budget adjustments as the price of any new tax measure. For eleven years that chairman has been Arkansas' Wilbur Daigh Mills, now 59. His economic sophistication and political acumen have made his word law with his committee members and the whole House. President Nixon has called for re-examination...
...Russia, Britain, France, Israel, Egypt and Jordan, plus the U.N.'s Jarring. Yet the diplomats already face a stiff penalty for delay in the fast-rising political power of the one interest group that will not be represented, the Palestinian fedayeen commandos. In any settlement, the Israelis will insist that Arab governments curb fedayeen within their own borders, something that they are increasingly unable to do. Moreover, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein will have to negotiate with the fedayeen in effect looking over their shoulders, adamantly opposed to any settlement...
...that, from the Scientologists' point of view, the "auditing or processing is a central practice of their religion, akin to confession in the Catholic Church." Furthermore, said Wright, Scientology's leaders claim that the E-meter is not used to diagnose or treat physical disease. They insist that they are treating the spirit, and through the spirit, hope to cure the body...
...Quemado Palace, Bolivia's presidential seat, has one entrance marked "RB" for Republica de Bolivia. Nowadays wits in La Paz insist that the initials actually stand for Rene Barrientos, the present occupant. The onetime air force commander was elected three years ago, following the coup that toppled Victor Paz Estenssoro. At the time, Bolivians predicted that he was politically too naive to survive longer than six months. With only a year to go before Barrientos completes a full term, even critics now admit that the handsome, mercurial chief executive has put his stamp on the country as have...
...John Carmody, an American Bar Association specialist on court procedures, reports that many people who want to avoid long service purposely do not register to vote (since jurors are often picked at random from voting lists). Others may even lie in court. In murder trials, for example, they may insist that they oppose capital punishment-though such persons are no longer automatically excused. Or they may answer yes when asked whether they have already made up their minds about a defendant's guilt. The danger is that if too many people escape duty, juries may not fairly express...