Word: insists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system is more essential--and thus more difficult--in the higher reaches of the hierarchy. Traditionalists like Fitzgerald resist outsiders and outside help like Harvard. Calling in the experts implies disloyalty to the Cambridge system for them. Duehay is willing to risk looking like an interfering academic, to insist that Cambridge go after the best men available for the jobs that fall open and new jobs that are created. And he is willing to stage political theatrics to block proposed appointments like Good...
Despite the irritation of security and government red tape, many of the results of secret research eventually do get published, the professors insist. They also point out that most such projects have many nonclassified aspects that provide valuable training for Ph.D. candidates. At Michigan, for example, classified electronics research has produced at least 30 doctorates. There is also considerable nonmilitary fallout from secret work. A 26-acre antenna built at Stanford to help the U.S. learn how to detect enemy missile launches was used by Stanford Electrical Engineer Von R. Eshleman to bounce the first radar signals...
Many of those close to White insist that he is anything but bland and that he is as imaginative and perceptive a politician as exists in the United States today...
Moving Slowly. For their own part, Japanese manufacturers insist that they have been circumspect in approaching the European and British markets. Says Masahiko Zaitsu, European export manager of Nissan Motors, Japan's second biggest company: "Unlike in the U.S., we don't look for any sudden increase in exports. We have to move slowly in order not to irritate these countries and disrupt their auto industries." While Japan's sales to Britain and Europe were up 70% during the first six months of this year, in absolute figures this only amounted to 24,117 cars. By contrast...
Hence, when we surrendered our cards, we were assuming equal responsibility, and we refuse to be separated from any of our fellow students. If the administration is to punish any of us, we insist that we all be dealt with equally...