Word: insists
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Various Yankelovich, Harris, Gallup and University of Michigan surveys place the percentage of voters who consider themselves Republican at between 18% and 25%, v. between 42% and 50% who consider themselves Democrats (the rest are self-styled independents). While Reagan backers insist that their man is now showing he can attract independents and Democrats, his following so far seems to be a narrowly based conservative bloc. "If Reagan succeeds in putting this coalition together," observes Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist, "it's not going to be a new majority, it's going to be a new minority...
...possibility of a compromise candidate?now only remote?would increase. At the moment nearly all such speculation centers on Connally. "You couldn't write a better scenario for Connally than what is happening in the Republican presidential campaign," says one of his political aides. But Connally's associates insist that he is making no move to seize the opportunity?yet. He is only giving speeches on college campuses, appearing at party fund raisers, keeping his options open and staying neutral in the Reagan-Ford bloodletting...
Outlandishly successful pop novelists rarely take the money and run. Against all the nudgings of reason, they insist on plunging once more. The critical risk is great, of course-reviewers and remaindered colleagues are poised to carp. Yet the built-in publicity is there waiting for them, and with it, perhaps, the long-suffering reader...
...loose collection of zoologists, geneticists and social scientists who argue that evolutionary animal behavior can explain human behavior today. In extending the earlier findings of the ethologists, whose ideas a generation ago became popular with Konrad Lorenz, the sociobiologists assert that despite man's centuries-long effort to insist that he is distinctively different from his fellow animals, one proper study of mankind is beast...
Agriculture department officials contend that farmers have exaggerated the extent of PBB contamination, and have used it in a few cases as an excuse for poor livestock management. They also insist they have found no detectable levels of PBBs in any milk, cheese or dried milk sold at retail since June 1974. Governor William Milliken has moved to resolve the dispute by ordering an investigation. But even as the Governor's probers were beginning their work, officials quarantined three dairy herds because of PBB contamination...