61.   Shawmut executives insist Alvord wanted a deal.

62.   Some league executives insist that their policies are having an impact.

63.   State Street executives insist the impact of a stock market decline on its business is usually overestimated.

64.   Studio executives sometimes insist on one.

65.   Staples executives insist their growth strategy has legs.

66.   Television executives insist they have clung to a hard core of loyalists, but there, too, interest is down.

67.   Still, Russian oil executives insist they have held back.

68.   The finding led critics of the networks to say their efforts had been successful and television executives to insist that the problem had been overstated from the outset.

69.   The Microsoft-Netscape divide has been compared to the VHS-Beta split in videocassette recorder technology, but industry executives insist that the analogy is flawed.

70.   Theater executives insist that computers at their phone services are programmed to offer the best seats available for a particular performance.