Word: insist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus, the diplomats believe, the U.S. must indicate willingness to discuss something other than zero-zero and be ready with a counterproposal in case Moscow shows any give. Officials advocating a counterproposal say the U.S. should insist on two principles: 1) if the Kremlin retains any SS-20s targeted on Western Europe, it must agree to the installation there of an equivalent number of U.S. warheads (not just launching vehicles); 2) any SS-20s removed from this force must be completely dismantled...
...with a few cans of Coors. He walks like Charlie Chaplin in slow motion and, when excited, breathes like an asthmatic piglet. He wants nothing more in this world than a faithful pal, unless it is to return to his out-of-this-world home. Cynics will insist he is made of aluminum, E.T. steel, fiber glass, polyurethane and foam rubber, but this is a small matter. The larger truth is that E.T. emerged from a sweet communal dream: of fellowship, loyalty, ordinary heroism, unfettered fun. He is every child's secret best friend, every adult's reverie...
...commission, which must report by Dec. 31, will probably issue conflicting recommendations. Its Republicans will demand that Social Security's problems be solved primarily by limiting benefits; its Democrats will insist that tax increases be the principal solution. That in turn could set the stage for a chaotic battle in Congress next year, since the main Social Security trust fund will be unable to send out pension checks on time by next July. The day of reckoning can be put off by extending the fund's authority to borrow from the separate Medicare and disability trust funds...
...activists. But a majority of the evangelical and fundamentalist missionaries either sympathize with rightist regimes or accept the status quo and insist that spiritual conversion, not political action, is the true work of the Lord...
...bill proposed by O'Neill last Friday to spend an additional $5.4 billion on "light public works": painting government buildings, weatherizing poor people's homes, filling potholes. The Speaker's aides insist that the money can be pumped out within 90 to 120 days. Many Congressmen doubt that it can, or that the bill will create the targeted 300,000 jobs in any case. But, says California Democrat Leon Panetta, "based on symbolism alone, it will pass...