Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must newspapers insist that everything bad comes from Wyoming? When Wyoming has a snowstorm, Colorado papers call it a blizzard, and if Colorado has the same kind of a storm it is called a million-dollar snowstorm...
Some corporations might be able to grant wage rises without raising prices. But the question is whether labor leaders will be willing to settle for some rises in some plants. Judging by their past records, they will not. Labor leaders, who are a highly competitive lot, insist that wage rises be industry-wide and, in the long run, industries-wide. It is significant that this week Reuther, Phil Murray, the boss of C.I.O. and of the steel workers, and the bosses of the electrical workers sat down together in Pittsburgh to plan a common strategy and a united attack...
Murray and Reuther, at least, do not want to strike. They recognize the disastrous possibilities of another series of work stoppages such as shook the economy last year. But they are in this thing up to their necks. The strike is virtually their only weapon and, if they insist on getting what they are now demanding, they might ultimately have to resort...
...Four conferences in the U.S., was well aware of the uneasiness at home and the embarrassing abstention of nearly a third of Labor M.P.s on a vote for his support. Gossiped craggy W. J. Brown, Independent M.P. and regular London Evening Standard commentator: "When [Bevin] comes home he will insist on a showdown, probably by claiming a solid vote of confidence at a party meeting. This may easily precipitate another crisis. For the abstentionists, having condemned his foreign policy, can hardly vote for a motion of confidence...
Italian critics insist, however, that despite Allied disclaimers the masterpiece was badly damaged by exposure to humidity after the bombing. They say also that the wall is thick with mold from the rotting of the damp sandbags...