Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money in TV. I received $1,200 for Marty, and the most I ever got was a little more than $2,000 for a Philco script. One year I wrote nine full-hour shows and numerous half-hours, and made $12,000 altogether"; 2) "I ask a lot. I insist on veto power when it comes to casting. I ask for veto power on a director. I insist that nobody can change a line in my scripts except me ... Not many people are willing to make these concessions...
...when he keynoted a meeting of the Democrats of Texas, a new liberal faction of the state Democratic Party. He bluntly charged that the followers of Shivers and Daniel had tried to suppress the liberals by refusing to grant their delegates official status at the 1956 state convention. "We insist," said he. "that there must be no more rigging and stealing control of Democratic Party conventions by cynical and ruthless political manipulation." In spite of his political activities, Abernethy has never been known to propagandize on campus, was up for a raise when the board of directors fired...
Cleveland industrialists conducted a survey, found that half of the city's employers frowned on moonlighting. They pointed out that moonlighters had a higher rate of absenteeism, lower productivity. In many cities, operators of unionized companies complain because their men insist on time and a half for overtime, or double time on Sundays, but will cheerfully work in back-alley, nonunionized shops for less than scale...
...Commonwealth trade speedup: a slash in imports from the U.S. of 15% ($625 million a year). Canada would make up the difference-"mainly capital goods"-from Britain instead. With Canada's wheat surplus ripening into his worst domestic worry, Diefenbaker also attacked U.S. wheat export "giveaways," which insist that importing countries guarantee "certain fixed market commitments for the future." He called the U.S. policy a "definite contravention" of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT...
...English translation used is adequate on the whole. One minor quibble, however: since the aim is to capture as Gallic a spirit as possible, why do they doggedly insist on talking of guineas, pounds, shillings and pence instead of louis d'or, livres, sols, deniers, pistoles and francs...