Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge Condominium Network Steering Committee, who sports a Wilkes button on his lapel. The message, he adds, is that the CCA has been "inflexible" on housing issues. And as Abt wrote in her statement to tenants, "without better data, it is irresponsible to dismiss alternatives and to insist on Rent Control and condo controls in exactly their current forms...
...control subsidizes the rich--which in some cases it surely does--as a rhetorical cover for attacking the program which protects them. "If debate is ever opened on rent control, the forces against it are so strong that it will emerge irrevocably weakened," one tenant activist says. Compromise, they insist, is impossible, and they view those who suggest it as greater enemies of rent control than those who oppose the program all together. In a contest between those who support rent control, and those who reject it absolutely, tenants have won. Calls for compromise, for mediation of differences, introduce...
...Harvard, the city's largest landlord, and other schools such as Lesley College and MIT are protected from paying property tax on their educational facilities because from the tax rolls. The exemptions are a must if education is to remain at all affordable, officials at Harvard and elsewhere insist...
Cambridge has so far resisted the temptation to convert to straight majority voting because, advocates insist, the PR system consistently ensures minority representation on the city council and school committee and at the same time prevents domination by any one political faction...
ANTHROPOLOGISTS INSIST that man is slowly growing larger, a fraction of an inch each generation, so that 1980 man bumps his head on the doorway that 1850 man sailed under easily. The subspecies of American writers, though, seem even more thyroidal--in the past few decades they have soared in size. Mailer, Wolfe, even John Irving; these men are literary Paul Bunyans, their typewriters 40 axhandles from base to carriage. Unafraid of any subject, they tackle modern life head on, to either conquer (Mailer and Wolfe) or be conquered. There is nothing quiet and little reflective about these men; they...