Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dutch, for their part, insist that the new U.S. routes are a matter of survival for KLM, which is 90% government-owned. KLM feels it must expand to remain healthy since it cannot hope for a greater share of the European market, this means turning to the U.S. and Canada. The biggest foreign purchaser of U.S. air transports (all its equipment is U.S. made), KLM also needs dollars to pay for some 30 new U.S. planes on order. But to the proud and independent Dutch, the prestige of their beloved KLM, the world's oldest continuing airline...
...pooling of economic resources, will have to be devised by the countries of Western Europe. The question of research into the peaceful use of atomic energy, a corollary to the economic problems, cannot be permanently separated from the disarmament talks. The nations which have already developed research facilities will insist on continuing their work, probably under international control...
Schwadran said that the United States should insist Egypt abide by the six United Nations principles on the Suez Canal. If Egypt should refuse, the U.S. should apply stringent economic measures and should attempt to isolate Egypt...
...elsewhere. While firms were hiring new engineers at the I.R.E. convention, their own men were being hired away by other firms. As a result, hiring and training a new man in an increasingly tight engineers' market generally costs more than a raise for the older man. Many engineers insist that they would be less ready to change jobs if they could be assured of regular raises and increasing responsibilities. Said a young electrical engineer: "What I'd like to see them do is to spend more time interviewing the people who are leaving than worrying about hiring...
...gooders. We are quite willing to reform the world, but we insist on being realistic about everything we do. We are a profitmaking organization." So says President Raymond Stevens of Arthur D. Little, Inc., the Cambridge (Mass.) research firm, which has done a notable job in reforming seven countries -at a price. Last week, adding luster to its reputation for solving social and economic problems from Iraq to Puerto Rico, A.D.L. took on two new projects: ¶ It contracted with the International Cooperation Administration and the Philippine government to expand 300 credit-lending rural coops. Organized in 1952 to free...