Word: insists
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White House aides insist that Carter has not yet made up his mind. He could take the dramatic step of immediate decontrol, or he could choose the more modest, but politically safer option of gradually lifting controls on specified types of U.S. oil over two years. Carter is likely to ask Congress to include an excess profits tax that would prevent the oil companies from reaping a sudden bonanza. But whether he will urge that this tax be rebated to low-income families, be set aside for oil exploration or used to reduce his budget deficit apparently was undecided last...
...means evolution, not revolution," says one feminist. If the slow, costly and erratic accumulation of court decisions seems barely past the protoplasmic stage of evolution, feminists in ERA states insist that it is only part of a much larger change in attitudes. Shoshana Cardin, head of the Maryland Commission for Women, points to the 28 women serving in the state legislature (eleven of whom are new this term) as evidence of Maryland women's "greater sense of opportunity and equality...
...Helms was allowed to plead no contest to watered-down charges that he misled the Senate, and this winter the Justice Department simply dropped charges against the ITT officials. Now it appears that the FBI case is also in danger of aborting. Why? National security. Lawyers for the accused insist that their clients cannot get a fair trial unless sensitive Government secrets are brought out. Rather than disclose them in court, the Justice Department has been avoiding trial altogether...
While he and Hieu are undeniably zealous crusaders, their tales of prison life rival those of Solzghenitsyn. Toai and Hieu insist that all the captives in Vietnamese jails are political prisoners, whose only crime is lackluster support or outright opposition to the government. While prisoners in the re-education camps work at hard labor, the captives in the jails are kept inside a small room and are taken outside only for interrogation. "It was so crowded that you had to sleep standing up, and when I got out for a while I could not sleep lying down," Toai says. Hieu...
However, despite the hamstringing of the bill prior to passage, commission members insist the financial disclosure requirements are stringent enough to be effective. Officials are still required to list their business dealings in great detail. The form also probes deeply into the question of gifts, while not snooping too far into an offical's private family records...