Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start off equally, Freshman Week can be the great leveler--if you have enough savvy to catch on quick. This year, as always, the coolest people will stay in their rooms the whole time, or not show up at school until the week is over. But for those who insist on participating in this week's activities, here is your schedule for being boss during your first days at Harvard...
...states insist that they can no longer handle the burden. Unemployment is running at 8.4% nationwide, and new census statistics report that last year the number of Americans below the poverty line rose to 23.8 million. At the same time, inflation has added to the amount of money needed for survival. All in all, the welfare rolls have increased by some 38% and payments by 11.3% since 1968. The situation is so bad that some states are defying the Federal Government, and a few counties have voted to withhold payments to their states...
...responses to the lawyers' questions ranged from acerbity to vagueness to sarcasm, as he continued to insist that by law and tradition, his papers still belong to him. Said he: "I shall determine . . . not the Congress. I shall determine what can appropriately be made public." That would be done, he promised, "as expeditiously as possible." But there is a catch: he and members of his family should review the tapes and documents, "having in mind the national security problem, the embarrassment, the private issue. By 'embarrassment' I am speaking of personal embarrassment and not speaking of embarrassment...
...industrialized area in Liaoning province. According to the Chinese publication Earthquake Frontiers, at 6 p.m. that day an announcement was made over the public-address system in the Kuan-t'un commune: "According to a prediction by the superior command, a strong earthquake will probably occur tonight. We insist that all people leave their homes and all animals leave their stables." As an added incentive for people to go outside, the commune leaders also announced that movies would be shown in an outdoor location...
Administration economists continue to insist that the inflation rate will subside soon-perhaps to 6% or 7%, which, to be sure, would still be distressingly high. Last week in Vail, Colo., President Ford's chief economic adviser, Alan Greenspan, said of the CPI for August: "We do expect it to be below the double digit rate." The Department of Agriculture called a special press briefing at which officials reassuringly predicted that the retail cost of food will rise no more for the rest of the year than it did in July alone. Their reasoning: most meat and poultry prices...