Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...influence by fostering the reasoned expression of ideas and arguments put forward by their individual members and not by taking institutional steps to inflict sanctions on others. Universities that violate this social compact do so at their peril. They cannot expect to remain free from interference if they insist on using their economic leverage in an effort to impose their own standards on the behavior of other organizations...
...voiced by Harvard Economist William Hsiao. Says he: "Armchair professors and bureaucrats who sit behind desks pushing a pencil all day can work until age 68 without any serious difficulty," but manual workers are too worn out by physical labor to stay on the job that long. Others insist that many of the people who now retire at 62 do so less because of choice than because of failing health or inability to find another job if they are laid off in their early 60s. For those reasons, Pickle's bill, while raising the age for full benefits...
...language has been angrily debated for at least a decade. Not only are school textbooks being purged, but scholarly committees are re-examining even the Bible to determine whether the Son of Man, for example, should be renamed the Child of God. This may sound like faddism, but reformers insist that the wide spread use of terms like policeman and chairman helps decide who gets the jobs (and the power), that what people call things sometimes governs what they think about them. Traditionalists retort that language cannot and should not be subjected to such moral judgments...
...these precepts have proved an inadequate guide to dealing with the complexities of the real world, in which bellicose anti-Soviet rhetoric sometimes frightens U.S. allies more than it does the leaders in the Kremlin, and in which friends (actual and potential) insist on pursuing their own explosive quarrels rather than subordinating them to any common anti-Soviet cause. The President, who came to office lacking experience in foreign affairs, has given such matters only intermittent personal attention. Haig, beset with bureaucratic battles, has tended to focus his formidable energy on one foreign problem at a time. In the words...
...There are basic issues of international law and their relationship with the fundamental objective of this Administration's foreign policy, and that is to insist that historic change occur through the accepted rules of law. So that's a stake of principle...