Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still insist that an armament race among nations is absurd unless new territories or new controls are coveted. We are entitled, I think, to greater reassurance than can be given by words: the kind of proof which can be given, for example, by actual discussions, leading to actual disarmament. Not otherwise can we be relieved of the necessity of increasing our own military and naval establishment...
...buyers for the large life insurance companies are very canny gentlemen. They know just about what it costs to get an issue registered. They know just about what the spread that the company will pay to an investment banking group to sell their bonds will be. And they insist on getting both these things themselves in the price they offer for the bonds. So that, in the end, the company not only loses its broad distribution and what value to it that represents, but, also, it has no real net gain in the net price and, finally, the effect...
...conditioning engineers would be delighted to find a concise compromise, but they insist that you do not deceptively oversimplify an essentially complex condition...
...Hitler, who appropriates the democratic idea of self-determination to strengthen a totalitarian regime, really wanted peace he would not insist that so complex a problem as the transfer of Sudetenland be settled in so short a time. He would readily permit calm negotiations to bridge the gap between his "final" memorandum and Benes' "promise...
...copyrighted music, and grades royalties on a basis of the composers' musical importance -Rodgers & Hart, like Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, are graded AA or tops-they each get about $18,000 a year. In a good year, their total income is upwards of $100,000. They insist they are not the biggest moneymakers in their field, though they have no idea...