Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most controversial fatal accidents in the history of the U.S. Last week, as the date of an inquest demanded by Massachusetts District Attorney Edmund Dinis approached, it stirred even more controversy. Disturbed by all the publicity, attorneys for Edward Kennedy appeared before Judge James Boyle in Edgartown to insist that the judge grant their client the rights of a defendant in a criminal trial. The judge refused, pointing out that inquests are not trials but investigations to determine the cause of death and to discover whether any criminal act was involved...
...same overpermissive parents more often than not make irrational demands for high marks in school and insist on superhygienic cleanliness so that their children reflect well on them in public. Such families, says Bettelheim, exploit their children to fulfill their own "narcissistic needs"; they choose to follow Freud where it suits their convenience, and are as demanding of conformity as "the worst Victorian parent" where it does not. For the children, Bettelheim says, the result has been a "senseless" uncertainty about their own identities that turns to self-hate and later to resentment of the world at large...
Four burly, unsmiling men in a black Mercedes-Benz limousine drive unannounced to the doors of a floundering textile company. Brusquely, they insist on seeing the owner-and they offer him a proposition for a takeover on the spot. France's Willot brothers-Bernard, 45, Jean-Pierre, 40, Antoine, 38, Regis, 35-have made that scenario increasingly familiar in European industrial circles. They make it their business to find out about textile firms in financial trouble and move in to grab control at bargain prices. In ten years of incessant acquisitions, they have stitched together the biggest textile combine...
...production: 255 million barrels). By attacking the oilfields, Biafra hopes to press the companies (Gulf, Phillips, Shell, British Petroleum and Italian Agip Nucleare) to talk Gowon into negotiations. Though Nigerian officials admit that oil production has dropped 60,000 barrels a day because of the war, the oilmen insist that they have no intention of interfering in an attempt to achieve a ceasefire. Two weeks ago, to step up the pressure, one of Ojukwu's rocket-equipped Swedish planes hedgehopped to a Gulf tank farm at the mouth of the Escravos River. Biafra claimed that four storage tanks were...
John Hillaby is one of those slightly cracked Englishmen who insist on doing something remarkable largely in order to write a delightful book about how awful it was. At the age of 50, and more out of curiosity than a sense of competition ("For me the question was not whether it could be done, but whether I could do it"), he undertook a 1,100-mile hike from one end of Britain to the other. In the course of it, he managed to be fogbound on Dartmoor, musclebound in Bristol and sodden in Somerset. He was rained upon almost everywhere...