Word: insist
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Commission members insist that the report is "party blind," but the project is clearly a reaction to the heavy-handed news management practiced by the Reagan Administration. Reagan has held fewer press conferences than any other TV-era President -- an average of about six a year, compared with 22 1/2 for John F. Kennedy -- and informal access to him has been tightly restricted. "Shouting questions above the roar of helicopter engines just does not make it," says NBC News Washington bureau chief Robert McFarland...
Harvard also insist that students get permission from their proctors for any guests...
...Philippine government has filed 39 civil suits against Marcos, seeking to collect $96.7 billion in damages. But no criminal charges have been filed there because officials fear the deposed leader would insist on his constitutional right to return to the country to face his accusers in court...
Many voters insist that they are not influenced by campaign ads. But it is easy to hear echoes of recent commercials on a walk down Homewood Avenue -- a few blocks from the Heitgers' -- in this neighborhood of front porches, garage sales and $40,000 homes. "I'm not sure about Dukakis," said Steven Davis, a hospital security guard. "I like his ideas about better health care, but he also scares me a little about defense." Carl Bauer, a 72-year-old retiree, was scathingly critical of Bush's performance in the first debate, but will probably vote for him anyway...
White families living near the Sleds insist they are not racists. But, they say, they are afraid that the Sleds may be followed by other black families, that white residents will move, then property values will plummet, and the neighborhood will deteriorate. "I'm afraid of what could happen," said one 75-year-old woman. Until 1972 she and her husband lived in Austin, a Chicago suburb that went from predominantly white to predominantly black. "We had to sell our home for nothing," she said. "What happens if this whole doggone neighborhood gets up and leaves...