Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aide watching the normally mild-mannered Glenn said later: "His lips were blue they were so tight. If I know my man, that's just going to steel his determination to insist on his view of adequate verification." If so, Rosalynn Carter's rebuke may have been a serious blunder because Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, is emerging as a substantial figure in the SALT debate. His fierce feelings about the important issue of verification might turn him against the treaty, despite his basic support for arms control. This would be a serious blow...
...Oilmen insist that all the profits of decontrol, not just some of them, are urgently needed to finance the search for crude. Asks Hugh Liedtke, chairman of Pennzoil Co.: "Are we to raise more tax money or raise more oil?" But some of the biggest firms are swinging around to an emotional accommodation with the idea of a tax, so long as it is phased out in a couple of years. What they want is a temporary levy with a so-called plow-back provision. Under it, companies would be able to reduce their windfall profits taxes each year...
...they had not revealed before nor grant them any wider freedom of travel or access. Needless to say, strange research projects sustained by the CIA--such as MK ULTRA--discredit the agency and faculty concerned as do attempts by academics to spy on radical groups on campus. Congress must insist these activities cease immediately...
Islam and Progress. Muslim scholars insist that nothing in Islam is incompatible with technological advance or industrial development. In the days of the caliphs, Islam led the world in scientific and intellectual discoveries. What Muslims object to are the evils associated with modernization: the breakdown of the family structure, the lowering of moral standards, the appeal of easygoing secular lifestyles. At the same time, Muslims are demanding the best of the West: schools, hospitals, technology, agricultural and water development techniques. Harvesting the fruits of modernization without absorbing some of its side-effects may prove to be impossible. But Sheik Mahmoud...
Opponents of the death penalty insist that the new laws still work unfairly. The argument on the effect of race has taken a new twist: killing a white is more likely to bring the death penalty than killing a black. In Alabama, for instance, on the basis of 1,395 murders and 41 death sentences, it is twelve times more likely. Even though roughly equal numbers of blacks and whites were killed in Georgia, Texas and Florida from 1973 to 1977, 90% of the convicts on death row got there by killing whites, according to a study by Sociologists William...