Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems, even without Getulio Vargas' politicking. But last month Vargas bowed to labor and doubled the nation's minimum wages. That set off a new round of price rises and led to new union demands for a price freeze. With congressional elections due in October, Vargas may insist that Aranha, who is in favor of letting supply & demand set the price level, try to nail down food prices. But the fact that he took on the new Cabinet job last week shows that nervy Oswaldo Aranha is in no mood to give in easily...
Ruled the Council: "[Gunn's] actions . . . have fallen below the best journalistic standards . . . The Council gives its complete support to the principle that a critic has the right to insist that where his name is to be published with an article, no alterations [apart from normal copy editing] should be made without the sanction of the critic . . ." This time Editor Gunn manfully printed the criticism in his paper -without changing a word...
Explaining his organization's view of the French-Vietminh conflict, French said that the way to solve the problem "is obviously not by putting more tanks and gains." But any kind of a desirable solution seems improbable, he added "so long as the Communists insist that their forces gain all the land they're after...
Made ultracautious by previous fiascos, Drs. Penn and Dowdy are not even calling their procedure a "cancer test," and they insist that it should be used only under strict hospital or clinic conditions and along with other procedures. But, clearly, they hope it will prove its worth as soon as the bugs can be worked...
Last week, at his banquet, Perry Smith delivered one final plea for the middle way of the "oldfashioned progressive." He denounced those who would sweep away all discipline and intellectual content from the school ("Certainly the old-fashioned progressive never advocated any such thing"). He also deplored those who insist that everything progressive is wrong. "As one great headmaster put it, 'You are neglecting to put the fear of God into [children].' Yes, perhaps so, but it is my belief that we put the love of God into children, and that is far better...