Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Gaddafi was intrigued by and attracted to the kind of rough-and-tumble, Marlboro-loner cowboy American who occasionally worked for the CIA in the Arab world, and who more commonly represented the smaller oil companies in the area. Representatives of the oil firms with interests in Libya insist that Gaddafi has always treated them with courtesy and respect, even as his political relations with the U.S. plummeted...
...white, the same colors as the Salvadoran flag, and they usually show three happy citizens standing together. "El Salvador deserves your vote," reads the caption. On radio and television, scrupulously nonpartisan spot announcements urge voters to turn out on election day. "This time your vote will be respected," they insist. "Your vote will make the difference...
...larger companies were chopped into smaller ones. In many cases, workers defied their unions and helped with the chopping. They did so, explains Vito Scalio, a Christian Democratic member of parliament and onetime union leader, because workers believe that the unions are out of date. Says Scalio: "They still insist on representing a proletariat that wants to grow out of the proletariat class and become entrepreneurs...
Reagan himself is not quite the detached Chairman of the Board of popular myth, or so his aides assert. They insist that he studies briefing papers longer and in more detail than the public ever suspects. The President can be fiercely decisive on matters that involve his ideological principles. The troika had to restrain him last August from announcing his decision to fire the striking air-traffic controllers until the strike had actually begun. Reagan has even been known to overrule a unanimous troika opinion on issues about which he feels deeply. The three all thought last summer that...
...screen version of Whose Life Is It Anyway? is quite the opposite of the play on which it is based. One left Brian Clark's drama feeling that Ken Harrison, the promising sculptor whom an auto accident had turned into a quadriplegic, was tragically correct to insist, against all the established medical and legal verities, on being allowed to die. One leaves the movie feeling that he is tragically wrong in that determination...