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Word: insist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consider the display of a Christian religious symbol by a municipality to be an affront to persons of other faiths or of none," says Dean Kelley, director for religious liberty at the National Council of Churches. "As for a menorah, two wrongs don't make a right." Others insist that religiously inspired symbols should be permitted when they reflect U.S. tradition. "As long as we're going to have Christmas as a national holiday," says Fordham University law professor Charles Whelan, "it makes sense to allow the display of a creche." But as Columbia University law professor Vincent Blasi points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Revisiting The Reindeer Rule | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...work, the process that makes his pictorial thought possible. It defines the forms, sets up the changes of pace between areas abutting across a surface, provides the evidence of change and reconsideration that the calm look of his finished paintings only partly hides. "If ((drawing)) does not insist on its importance," writes the show's curator, John Elderfield, in his catalog essay -- as acute and satisfying a text as any critic in recent memory has written on drawing -- "it is because its importance is that of mortar between bricks, barely noticeable at times but what holds the structure together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Richard Diebenkorn's Drawings, The Decisive Line of a Master | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

Sharfstein's conclusion that "Jews have an obligation to insist on Israel's adherence to higher principles," while perhaps an idealistic dream, can only prove self-destructive for a state under seige. His presumptious knowledge of what is "morally right for Israel" seems at best, equally disturbing. Glen I. A. Schwaber...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israel | 12/10/1988 | See Source »

EVEN when they concede that point, conservative critics insist that a sub-minimum, or "training wage" is needed so that unskilled teenagers can gain experience in the job market. Businesses, the argument goes, would hire and train more teenagers if only their labor were cheap enough. Of course, as the minimum wage stagnated, the cost of teenage labor declined dramatically in real terms since 1981, but teenage employment rates have not risen...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Wage-ing a War | 12/10/1988 | See Source »

...Celtics problems are deeper than Rodgers' misguided ideas. No matter how you align them on the court or how fast you insist they play, the Celtics are still old. Their bench is still weak...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Run Down on the Celtics' Offense | 12/6/1988 | See Source »

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