Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe undergraduates must vote today on whether to continue to require every student to subscribe to the Radcliffe News. Proponents of the compulsory subscription insist that the measure is necessary if the News is to survive, and they have tried to pretend that today's vote is on whether Radcliffe students want the News to survive...
...present the proponents of such a movement are often not outspoken in their demands, but a dual system of schools with tax money flowing in some form to private schools seems to be a possibility in some peoples' minds. In this connection I think it is only fair to insist that the criticis of our public schools should make clear their stand on two important points. To each one who attacks our public schools I would ask the simple question: "Would you like to increase the number and scope of the private schools?" If the candid answer...
...public, squarely on the griddle. The Wage Stabilization Board's proposal seemed to be the only alternative to a crippling strike, but to support it would lead inevitably to more inflation. The other big unions waiting in the wings (e.g., John L. Lewis' miners) would insist on similar increases-and employers would insist on price increases to pay the wages...
...process of building up a cone. Most likely it has been in that process for centuries." Superstitious natives think otherwise. Some say the Didicas Rocks are the steeples of an old Spanish church, submerged long ago by God to punish some wicked Spanish friars. The smoking crater, they insist, is a hole in the church dome, a chimney for incense being burned by the long-dead friars as an act of repentance...
Largely these are petty gripes, most Councillors admit, but they are significant. Councillors insist that Atkinson does not recognize the tremendous pressures brought on legislators. He is too interested in keeping taxes down to fulfill campaign promises. Even worse, he evidently does not realize that he was elected by a coalation--the Cambridge Civic Association. He flaunts this coalition, and Councillors believe that the only way to put him in his proper place is to dangle him on a shoe-string for a while...