Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ended last week. It was an era that began with the assassination of John Kennedy, setting back the political clock and, for eleven years, giving us rejects for President (Johnson and Nixon) and denying the middle generations-educated, aware, pragmatic-their rightful heritage. Some Democrats insist that Jimmy Carter's ascendancy represents an even greater change-that half a century of political innovation, a period that transformed America, ended in New York...
...trouble is money. The ships are being paid for under old contracting procedures that the companies insist did not recognize how rapidly inflation and design changes would kick up their construction costs. Result: builders are presenting $2.4 billion in past claims; the Navy will only recognize $1.9 billion. Meanwhile, the shipbuilders are forced to dip into their own working capital to finance construction. They complain that the Navy has been trying to build too many ships with too little money. "You cannot expect a private company to finance the U.S. Navy," declares Glen McDaniel, chairman of Litton's executive...
...most controversial new medical treatment in Vienna today is that of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, who claims to cure both physical and mental illness through the invisible forces of "animal magnetism." Although many reputable physicians insist that this magnetism does not exist, Mesmer points to the case of Franziska Oesterlin, 28, a friend of his wife's, whom he successfully treated two years ago for hysterical convulsions, pains in the ears, toothache, fainting spells, retention of urine, and delirium. Newspaper reports of that case brought Viennese flocking to his office...
...Skeptics insist that Mesmer's cures are a result of his patients' hopes and imagination. If that is true, his treatment might simply be called Mesmerism...
...Bayh bill, which include labor unions and consumer and environmental groups, argue that putting the giant firms on the chopping block would open the market to greater competition, end price discrimination by the majors against independent marketers and ultimately result in cheaper petroleum products. More important, they insist that splitting up the industry would stiffen its approach to oil-producing countries, which have quintupled the price of crude in recent years. A fully integrated company, the critics say, has a vested interest in playing ball with the producers, while a marketing and refining firm without producing interests would haggle more...