Word: insists
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...function of antitrust to enhance economic efficiency or to ensure the dispersal of economic power into many hands? Is antitrust becoming, as its critics charge, a hodgepodge of half-baked economic theories and pop sociology that threatens the future of freedom? Or is it becoming, as its champions insist, an ever more important and effective guarantor of that freedom? Seeking answers, Time Inc. last week brought 59 leading corporate officers and economists to Washington for a conference on antitrust. For two days, they heard from and asked questions of 19 speakers, including Government officials, lawyers, law professors, economists and businessmen...
Although they have been driven by religious conscience into resisting Moscow's strictures, the Reform Baptists insist that they are not political dissidents. "In accordance with biblical teaching," Vins says, "we believe that every authority is ultimately from God and that we are obliged to submit ourselves to such authority on all civil matters. To work. To pay taxes. To show respect to the government. But when it is a question of faith, then we submit ourselves to God alone...
...controversy buffeting Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, who vehemently denies that any wrong was done, derives from the killing of two young leftists by Commonwealth police. The police insist that the two agitators for Puerto Rican independence from the U.S. were about to blow up government radio towers at Cerro Maravilla, a mountain site about 50 miles from San Juan. Yet there are so many unanswered questions and contradictory versions of the police ambush that a U.S. Justice Department investigation is looking for possible violations of civil rights, a federal grand jury is probing the case, and relatives of Carlos...
Ohio's Shawnee Indians regularly violate the state's bird-protection law by plucking feathers from eagles, hawks and even robins for their ceremonial headdresses. No one has ever been arrested, but some Indians insist that the fowl law slights their heritage, and they persuaded State Representative Edward Orlett to do something about...
...many other black intellectuals do not share that enthusiasm. Some insist she has played into the hands of the white Establishment, which, according to Howard University Psychologist Harriette McAdoo, is all too "eager to believe there is a schism between black men and black women." Many regard her account of the great biracial crusade of the 1960s as a historical distortion, and as Sociologist Robert Staples of the University of California at San Francisco insists, "a slur on everything that went on in the movement and everyone who took part." Others acknowledge that there are indeed tensions between black...