Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...listed shows. By mid-June, 6,000 churches had agreed to take part. Says Hurt's literature: "They [the sponsors] are the 'Achilles' heel' of the entire television industry ... The purpose of the campaign is not to take programs off the air, but to insist that they be cleaned up so that they are no longer an insult to decency and [a] negative influence on our young people...
...bureaucracy listened to Gaye Williams, president of the Radcliffe Lesbians Association, insist that "we're not trying to recruit students, we're trying to educate them." Then they listened to the 50 students who had come to the meeting applaud what Williams said. Then they listened to a somber Dean Rosovsky say that "it's not in the tradition of this committee to have applause or demonstrations of this kind...
...constantly assume that Harvard as an institution, which somehow does not include you, is what makes many of its students who are not White, upper- or middle-class, and heterosexual feel bad. And you repeatedly insist that the Harvard Administration should make them feel better. No doubt Harvard as an institution, which has traditionally prided itself on "training the country's leaders," bears considerable responsibility for White bourgeois Americans feeling superior to others, "normal," as Klitgaard preliminarily wrote. It therefore bears considerable responsibility also for humiliating Black, Brown, Yellow, Red, and working-class Americans. And no doubt the current Harvard...
...strategy also runs the risk of making inflation worse. Though -Reagan and his advisers insist that the tax cuts will be offset by spending reductions, the President-elect has been equally emphatic on the need to boost defense outlays at the same time. In the process, the deficit for the 1981 fiscal year that began in October could all too easily wind up swelling to $55 billion or even $60 billion instead of the $50 billion that is now projected, or the $27 billion that Rea gan is shooting for. Says Fiscal Expert Joseph Pechman of the liberal Brookings Institution...
Buxted has no expectation that Churkeys will ever replace a large percentage of the 380 million chickens that the British now consume annually. At $2 per lb., Churkey costs almost twice as much as chicken. But company executives insist that their product represents "a serious effort by serious people to produce a new bird for which there is a genuine need." Americans, who put away 4 billion chickens a year, may be able to test that claim soon: Buxted has applied for a U.S. Churkey patent...