Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supervisors and students can make suggestions about how to handle cases, but staff members insist that there are no "rights and wrongs" in counseling methods. Staff members insist that they be allowed to use their own personal style in counseling...
Most U.S. auto executives insist that the Kalmar system would not work in American assembly plants, which serve a vastly larger market and so must turn out many more cars per day than Kalmar...
Italian authorities, who unblinkingly insist that 95% of all mail is delivered on time, nonetheless admit that there is a daily backlog of 5,000 tons of mail; newspapers charge that it is more like 12,000 tons. Whatever the figure, the backlog is so huge that cynics have suggested that the mountain of undelivered mail be junked and that the post office start all over again. Someone in the system seems to agree: in June, Italian police discovered that 200 tons of undelivered mail had been sold to a Bergamo processing plant for recycling...
Many people insisted on starting their description with "I am California." Do inhabitants of the West Coast regard themselves as a separate breed? Apparently many don't even want to contaminate the race with "those back-Easterners" and insist on rooming with other Californians...
Beginning Jan. 1, American goldbugs, who have long been limited to purchasing coins or jewelry, can legally buy the real stuff: gold bars. A bill signed last week by President Ford ends a 40-year ban against private ownership of bullion by U.S. citizens. Administration officials insist that the lifting of the ban will not affect U.S. international monetary policy, since the value of the dollar is no longer closely tied to gold. Because gold pays no interest, it makes investment sense only to people who expect the price to rise sharply or who distrust other standards of value...