Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refused to accept the myths that all the other president's men so willingly repeat. He says that defense spending and tax cuts--like those Reagan has pushed through--cause deficits. He says that deficits push up interest rates. Nothing beyond Ec 10 and nothing Reagan didn't insist before he took office...
...surprise," he explained. "They would not have had me do this had they known in time." But his move was not taken solely with Ankara in mind. Denktash also sought to gain international attention, impatient as he is over the stalemate in negotiations with the Greeks. Moreover, some observers insist, he has personal ambitions. "He wouldn't be happy being the governor of a Turkish province [of a federal Cypriot republic]," said a Western diplomat last week...
Yale boosters insist that when Curtin and Andrie are both healthy the Elis are another team at least another offense. That's only happened three times before this Saturday in a 26-14 loss at William and Mary the Dartmouth game, and the win at Princeton...
...charges. Sure, they say, Charles William Eliot, who ruled Harvard with an iron fist for 40 years past the turn of the century, succeeded in transcending a small school into the preeminent university in the world. But it was at the expense of the College. At Yale, they insist, the University has been built up around the college, and undergraduates receive primary attention...
...getaway car. Bowden had no criminal record. And at 5 ft. 4½ in. and 180 Ibs., he fitted the description of the tall, lean robbers in only one way: he was black. Despite the reluctance of citizens to second-guess the police, who continued to insist that Bowden was a criminal, an all-white jury found the killing to be a "wrongful death," and awarded his widow Patricia a judgment, still unpaid, that with interest exceeds...