Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there something potentially sinister about television's intrusion into this striking moment of history? Did TV in fact serve history well in the episode? Or was TV, as the networks defensively insist, merely a neutral professional bouncing its images off a satellite with no intention-or effect-beyond good journalism? Oddly enough, the answer to all three questions is probably...
...annual plan for approval from his superiors in Moscow. To charges that the Soviets are deliberately running deficits to "buy" cargo business from foreign competitors, Novacek retorts: "This is purely a business arrangement." Professor Joseph Sweeney, a Fordham University authority on maritime law, also believes the Soviets insist that each of their shipping lines and agencies show a profit. Indeed, he thinks the Soviets are "using free enterprise tools" to attack price-fixing cartels...
Yale officials insist they must keep the option of hiring more part-timers, to provide the most efficient services. Although the union has asked for a number of broad assurances that Yale will not continue to cut down on its full-time employees, the university has offered only a guarantee that it will not reduce the work-hours of current full-timers--unless there is a major change such as "reduction or discontinuation of services or a technological change." And to union members, that caveat threatens their job security...
...executives insist that they were the first to think of a joint interview. Three days before Cronkite's coup, the network began seeking agreement from Begin and Sadat for an unprecedented televised dialogue, during which an invitation could be made and accepted directly. When ABC Correspondent Peter Jennings in Cairo broached the idea to Sadat during an untelevised discussion Monday, Sadat said he would go before the Knesset, if formally invited. That night ABC news showed Jennings paraphrasing his talk with Sadat, and then cut to a taped interview with Begin, who offered Sadat a verbal invitation. "Cronkite took...
...this be justified, legally or morally? Feminist groups insist that it can. They say wives seeking relief from abuse come up against a bewildering series of societal pressures, as well as a legal system that is either indifferent or tends to regard it as a purely personal matter. Even when police encourage filing of complaints, women fear poverty if their husbands are removed and intensified abuse if they return...