Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dares to be cautious," Hart declared, "The future can only be secured with a different kind of President-who dares to be bold, not cautious." Mondale readily concedes that his slowness in turning against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam "was the worst mistake of my entire career." His aides insist that caution is a good thing when the international stakes are high. They claim that Mondale's deliberation contrasts favorably with Reagan's impulsiveness. The deeper question, however, is whether Mondale would be decisive in a time of crisis. Charges Cranston: "Mondale is unlikely to offer us bold...
Most players insist that the club does not consist of those who could not make the varsity. "We're all good athletes who just don't want to put in the time commitment" says Wanger, adding that the majority of the players did play on the Harvard j.v. and that three of the Classics used to play varsity...
...second point about reverse discrimination Louis makes is that those who insist that remedies for past discrimination not injure the rights of whites confuse the "setting up [of] goals and timetables with quotas, presumably preferring that Blacks simply lodge individual lawsuits each time they find themselves victims of racial discrimination." In this assertion, Louis is using the "straw man" technique in double measure. First, no serious participant in the debate objects to increased efforts to recruit more minority applicants. Goals and timetables are acceptable, and even laudable, as long as no applicant's credentials are given special weight because...
Reagan's advisers insist that he never bothered to discuss with them whether he should run; their talks involved only strategy and timing. The President debated his choice only with his wife Nancy. The First Lady has become much more comfortable with her own role in the public eye than she was at first. Though she is still haunted by the assassination attempt against her husband, she encouraged him to do what he wanted...
...foreign policy, Reagan might actually be less hard-line in a second term, for the same reason that he would be very tough on domestic issues: it would be his final chance to leave his mark on history. Aides insist that he wants to be remembered as the President who achieved a major, verifiable weapons-reduction deal with the Soviets, and would press hard for one. That assumes that Moscow would cooperate, a very large assumption...