Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Insist that they justify their needs for assistance in all cases where the need is not apparent to us. If they fail to do so, we should in such cases refuse assistance...
Tariff-happy American manufacturers are perfecting new strategy suitable for a cold war and hot nerves. Even where industrialists can no longer point to low foreign wages as a source of unfair competition, they now insist that America must protect itself by barricading its defense fortress with high tariff walls...
...Administration's reserve bill brings defense theory up to date, yet its view into the future is short-sighted. Under present plans, for example, the new program will run just four years, although field commanders insist that a reserve-training program will be worthwhile only if it extends far into the future. Permanent plans alone can resolve the uncertainties of military service for the nation's youth...
Beethoven's Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 received similar treatment. Particularly for this piece, comparison with the Budapest group became unavoidable. Many people insist that Beethoven's chamber music be performed with the masculine vigor of the Budapest, for all its lack of suavity. The Paganini, on the other hand, emphasized grace and subtlety. But from a critical standpoint, the integrity of either approach is unquestionable. The greatness of the Paganini Quartet lies in the perfection of its own musical objectives...
...Gasmen insist that FPC is simply not equipped to control gas production. Since June some 7,000 applications for rate increases have been filed, and FPC has not yet acted on most of them. The problem is not simply one of setting a gas rate for 5,000 producers. Each gas field is a distinct operation with separate problems; rates must be set for thousands of different wells. The industry is so closely bound up with oil that gas exploration, drilling, and production costs are inextricably mixed together. To regulate gas, FPC would also, indirectly, partially control oil prices. Moreover...