Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem to have succeeded in communicating what happened in our discussion to others. Some people insist on seeing wide theoretical questions in what, this time, happens to have been a specific and practical issue...
Even the black leaders of the government-established Bantustans (segregated homelands), who are considered sell-outs by more militant nationalists, insist that the homelands only offer a temporary solution and the only existing channel or official black demands...
...believe there would be any surplus in California that would have to be piped East. The unexpected West Coast glut-about 600,000 bbl. per day-arose, says Sohio, because of increased energy conservation and the lower fuel consumption that resulted from the recession. Yet others insist that the glut problem cannot be a surprise to the company. Says O.K. ("Easy") Gilbreth, director of Alaska's division of oil and gas: "Sohio told me five years ago that they were well aware of the surplus...
...middle-income" from Carter's statement. When Carter was asked by A.P. what he meant by "higher incomes," he loosely cited the mean or median level of income, and anything above that would be higher and anything below would be lower." Ford has repeatedly pounced on that to insist that Carter means to increase taxes on anyone making more than $14,000?even though Carter specifically had excluded "middle-income taxpayers" from such increases. Still, Carter is open to the suspicion that he did not know what the "median income" means...
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