Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics retort that this script is, in the words of Paul Warnke, a leading U.S. negotiator for the unratified SALT II treaty, "inherently implausible." Kremlin leaders, they insist, would not launch the first strike, because they could never be sure that they really would destroy most of the land-based American missiles. Even if they did, they dare not run the risk that the U.S. would hit back with a catastrophic strike on Soviet cities in return. Reaganites reply that worry about the Soviets' capacity for nuclear blackmail is in itself a force in world politics, frightening both...
...bolt of fabric, Armani will work out each of the 500 pieces he designs for his collections, most of which he will offer to buyers in a choice of three colors or fabric combinations. Occasionally, he will wrangle with Galeotti over the practicality of a design ("He will insist I've gone too far, that something is just not salable"), and often he sounds out staff members, whom he calls "my family." But all the designs, even his commissioned uniforms for the Italian Air Force, are Armani's. Unlike some big-name designers, he has no subordinates producing...
...their audience think they have the college students of 1982 all figured out. Obsessed with the future, and particularly career choices; increasingly apolitical; hung-up and generally dull--that's the portrait presented by The New York Times campus updates. At their most extreme, the makers of conventional wisdom insist that a wave of outright conservatism has washed over traditionally left-leaning East Coast schools, drowning the activists and the liberal skeptics under a sea of business school applications...
...grabbed this business away from traditional exporters like Cargill Inc. and Continental Grain Co. by using the high-volume, low-profit tactics that have made Japanese companies feared and formidable competitors in markets everywhere. Mitsui and Mitsubishi deny that they go further and deliberately incur losses, but U.S. traders insist that the companies in some cases do just that to expand their share of the market for American grain...
...kind of like hearing confession, except this is a business transaction." Negotiator Jack Pucell talked to one couple who had been ashamed of being unable to pay anything last year. Says he: "He's finally landed a job, and although he has had it only three months, they insist on paying the full cost." Another family installed a wood stove to cut utility bills so that they could pay more tuition. Says Savella: "Negotiated tuition generates a level of commitment we could never get with fixed tuition." At week's end parents had pledged more than...