Word: insist
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...most important and immediate point of contention is the installation later this year of American Pershing II ballistic and Tomahawk cruise missiles in Western Europe. The U.S. and its NATO allies quite justifiably insist on the right to deploy new weapons in Europe to redress the military imbalance resulting from the Soviet buildup in recent years, especially the arrival on the scene of some 360 SS-20 ballistic missiles, each with three warheads. The Soviets, quite outrageously but very stubbornly, have made it a cornerstone of their policy that NATO has no such right; not a single new long-range...
...would undergo a Nixonian metamorphosis, but they probably have no such hopes any longer. Regardless of his tactical and rhetorical readjustments of late, they see him as the most hostile, dangerous American President they have faced since the end of World War II. At almost every level, Soviet spokesmen insist that they will not allow a summit to take place if its principal consequence is to help Reagan politically...
Entirely different arguments have been advanced by other critics, who insist that universities should do nothing whatsoever in help students who fail to register. According to this view, even unsubsidized loans and campus jobs represent a form of help or at least afford some measure of convenience to nonregistering students. As such, these jobs and loans arguably constitute encouragement to those who violate the law and manifest disrespect on the University's part toward the will of Congress...
Though Watt vigorously promoted the plan when it was first introduced, his aides insist that he never had much faith in it. "It was a creation of the White House staff," says Watt's chief spokesman, Douglas Baldwin, who also fixed some of the blame on members of the Office of Management and Budget. "They thought you could get rid of the deficit like Mary Poppins, by just wiggling your nose." But the Secretary went along until recently, when, according to Baldwin, he became convinced that the program had become "a political liability to the President. And once...
Those favoring the increase insist that the IMF needs the funds to continue propping up shaky nations. The agency is committed to lending more than $10 billion to Brazil, Mexico and other countries this year to keep them from defaulting on their enormous foreign debts. Warned Volcker: "The IMF is at the very center of efforts involving hundreds of banks and dozens of countries to achieve the adjustment necessary to control the international debt situation." Reagan, who has called the boost "important legislation for international economic stability," has been huddling with Congressmen to push the measure...