Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breakfast table, Rosalynn listened carefully as her husband described what would be his daily schedule in Plains. She had been unenthusiastic in the past about going home. Her friends say that she will not last there, that eventually she will insist on moving to a place more stimulating. She talked of her plans to write a book and of her daughter Amy, who is being uprooted from a school she likes. The only friend Amy has kept up with in Plains is Billy Carter's daughter Mandy. "But she said she's looking forward to going back where...
...women answered their phones and heard the following: "Hello. I have an early warning for you. Sell the market. Sell everything. Sell short any stock that is up substantially from last April's lows." The advice came from Granville again--his list of 44 market indicators, he would later insist, showed him the market was due for a certain fall. The phone calls went to subscribers to his early warning service...
...Secretary of the Treasury-designate Donald Regan placed a higher priority on reducing spending than on cutting taxes. He said that trimming the budget and controlling regulation were the "more important" parts of the program. Said Regan: "Then we cut taxes." The more ardent supply-siders, led by Kemp, insist that the new Administration should press ahead with deep tax reductions. Says Kemp: "I don't want to see anything compromise the full 30% cuts...
According to Consumer Reports, the 1.4 billion gal. a day of H2O that gush through the city's faucets are fresher, clearer and "more stimulating" than all 37 varieties of commercial bottled water tested. For those who insist on decanting their liquids, Macy's is even selling the stuff with a spritz of carbonation under the gold label: CELEBRATED NEW YORK WATER -THE DRINK OF MILLIONS. The price...
THERE ARE THREE other attacks often levelled at Wilson's theory. The first is largely philosophical and indicts sociobiology only indirectly as part of a larger conspiracy. This attack objects to the sociobiology stance which insists that humans are passive vehicles for either our genes or our environment. Strongly anti-determinist, the proponents of this argument insist that humans are active agents who shape their own destinies. In short, it is a plea for the power of free will. This position largely ignores the material in Wilson's book rather than confronting...