Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hinted that SWAPO could be invited to the round-table conference-now under way at Windhoek, the Namibian capital -by conference delegates. He also indicated that South Africa might be willing to move Namibia's independence date forward to Dec. 31,1977. In return, Vorster would insist that a SWAPO-dominated government guarantee the safety and rights of Namibia's white minority...
Behaviorist Dorothy Tennov of Connecticut's University of Bridgeport says narcissism is becoming a common diagnosis because "therapists seldom see virgins-people who haven't been to a therapist before. The people who go are a relatively small group who become therapy junkies." Others insist that today's narcissism is far broader, a cultural phenomenon growing out of two seemingly competing features of the 1960s and 1970s, rising personal affluence and deepening individual power lessness. The late Marxist sociologist Theodor Adorno took what is probably the darkest view. Capitalism, he maintained, causes such alienation that "narcissistic merger...
...other issues, the candidates-especially Moynihan-part company. Though a committed liberal on domestic matters, he believes in a strong and assertive America. He accuses his opponents of hypocrisy because they demand all-out aid for Israel at the same time they insist on trimming the Pentagon budget. "Bella has never voted a dollar for American defense," he claims. "Never one single dollar. It is against this kind of demagoguery that I'm running...
...Department of Agriculture scientists concede that the Texas scientists could have a point, but insist that other factors are also at work in the new wave of cattle infestation: warm weather last winter and moist conditions this summer have increased the birth rate of the fly; there are fewer ranch hands to check and treat cattle on the ranges; and a recent proliferation of Gulf Coast ear ticks has resulted in wounds on cattle that provide ideal hatching places for screwworm larvae. In addition, some scientists speculate that because the factory males are smaller and differently colored, the wild females...
When the seven-week siege was over, the Christians could claim one of the most decisive victories of the 16-month civil war. A major Moslem enclave in Christian territory had been obliterated, and the tormented nation had advanced one step closer to partition. Although both sides insist they still want a united Lebanon, each has begun setting up a separate administration in its own territory...