Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight-hour shift begins at 7:50 a.m. Mitchell must go through an orientation week before receiving his assignment, but is expected to be given clerical duties in the prison where his color photograph was once prominently displayed beside Nixon's. The wardens in the two institutions insist that neither man will receive special treatment, but Mitchell was routed away from the minimum security camp at Allenwood, Pa., where he normally would have gone. Reason: Allenwood is now overcrowded, and federal officials feared they might have trouble protecting him from inmates...
More sportswriters should follow Dean's lead: they should try to say less and talk more. Baseball, after all, is for all its pinstriped glory still just a game, the biggest and best circus America could find to go with its daily bread. Yet so many writers insist on finding some cosmic meaning in baseball, some hidden truth in each line drive and Texas leaguer. Some people just never learn...
...President, the author said, made evangelical didacticism a foundation for his foreign policy. Moral principle was something that every nation should not only obey but also insist upon in others. There was, the President felt, an order in human affairs determined by God and perceivable...
...Miller is now in a much more difficult situation. Coal operators are angry because he is unwilling to curb wildcat strikes, which have increased to near-epidemic proportions in the Eastern fields. Miller has stated that he will insist on contract revisions that would give U.M.W. locals the right to strike over grievances. Miller also says he wants another big increase for the miners, but he will find the operators tight fisted. Last time around, the mineowners realized that they owed the workers a big raise to let them catch up with other unions. Now that U.M.W. wages and allowances...
...Club Gold Cup. There is a good possibility of a dream race against Forego, the seven-year-old gelding that has been Horse of the Year for the past three years and is-unless Slew can beat him-the best horse now running. If Slew stays sound, his owners insist, they will race him next year as well. If they persevere, the decision to race as a four-year-old is a bold one. The Taylors and Hills have turned down stud-syndication offers ranging as high as $14 million; the premiums on Slew's $3.5 million insurance policy...