Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided to refrain from selling Taiwan any fighter jets more advanced or sophisticated than the F-5Es it currently has. At the same time, the U.S. will urge the Chinese to end their deafening silence about Soviet involvement in the Polish crackdown. State Department officials involved with the trip insist that there is no formal quid pro quo. But some observers found it hard to believe that the two items on the mission's agenda were not integrally linked...
...BRITISH: In addition to being patriotic, Britons also appear to be truly a happy breed. Of those surveyed, 95% insist that they are "quite happy" or "very happy." But there also seem to be contradictions in the way the British see themselves. They take more pride in their work (79%) than do those of the other countries, which seems strange in a nation renowned for bellicose trade unions, work stoppages, strikes and generally poor industrial relations. The British watch more television (20 hours a week) than anyone else (the Danes and Dutch read more newspapers). But they also prove...
...FRENCH: Call it Gallic cynicism, perhaps, but the French, in addition to being most adulterous, insist that they are also the most dissatisfied and the least proud of their work. They are the least Godfearing, except for the Danes. Along with the Germans, they take the greatest interest in politics. And while far less eager than the British to march off to war, they are far more apt to march off to strikes, demonstrations and even revolutions...
Criticism of Saxon tends to divide along the same lines as the debate about the future of American mathematics teaching. There are those who advocate a return to basics through practice and drill, and those who insist that practice without abstract theory is ultimately limiting. Both sides are in a sense right. Yet Saxon's main point contradicts neither. He simply affirms that Algebra I is not the place for obscure theory, which can be introduced later, when students know how to use algebra well enough to profit from it. "Algebra is the basic language of all mathematics beyond...
...Carson's guests, his audience, his tailoring and "a marmoset [that] peed endearingly on Johnny's head and an aardvark [that] shat in a sandbox." Nevertheless, Davies concluded his well-turned roast with an exemplary demonstration of fair play: "Against the run of all this evidence, I insist that Carson is worth having...