Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moves to tighten Mrs. Gandhi's grip on India came at a time when some observers had hoped for at least a symbolic relaxation of restrictions. Mrs. Gandhi's supporters insist that she could win an open election handily right now. She insists just as strongly that it is more important to carry out the reforms proposed in her 20-point economic and social program, such as abolition of indentured labor, land redistribution and expanded irrigation networks. That may be so. But her determination to quash all opposition suggests that she does not dare to risk a genuine...
Bailey's firm has come back since the Turner charges were dropped and is now operating in the black. His colleagues insist that he has mellowed somewhat since the Florida battle?and his subsequent marriage to his third wife Lynda, 28. He and British-born Lynda, a stewardess supervisor, met at a restaurant in Detroit, where Bailey was trying a case. When he first saw her she was sitting at a table with one of his associates reading a paperback novel. Bailey walked up to the table and grumped, "Forget that trash and read something worthwhile." He threw down...
Counters Nestlé Managing Director Arthur Fürer: "No one has yet hit on the idea of demanding that wine be sold through doctors or pharmacies because hundreds of thousands of people get drunk on it and sometimes cause fatal accidents." Nestle officials insist that their advertising has always stressed, as one billboard in Nigeria puts it, that BREAST MILK IS BEST. Often, however, mothers themselves are undernourished and must supplement their own milk with formula. Nestlé was also a principal architect of an ethical code recently adopted by nine infant-food producers. The code requires that promotional...
Those close to Moynihan insist that he has not yet decided whether to make the plunge into politics, return to Harvard (he reportedly must make up his mind by next week, or he will lose his tenure) or remain in his U.N. post. If he decides to go for the Senate seat, he faces another sizable, self-imposed precipice. Last October he declared on Face the Nation, "I would consider it dishonorable to leave this post and run for any office, and I would hope it would be understood that if I do, the people, the voters to whom...
...care at all) only because of Vile Bodies and novels like it. Waugh's prose style is recognized as crystalline and authentic. His characters, born in a half-life between portrait and imagination, are fully his creations now, now that the originals have been forgotten. Those who insist on relegating Waugh to the position of a minor writer will have to be convinced in the long run, by the vitality of his message and the elegance of his technique. So far Waugh has been damned for his virtues and praised for his faults. Primarily, it seems...