Word: insist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Intuitively and emotionally, the case for legalization may be hard to accept. Opponents insist that on a pragmatic and logical level it is also a dangerous and harebrained folly. Dukakis told several questioning New Jersey voters last week that he opposes legalization, and Reagan agreed in an interview with TIME and other newsmagazines. Said the President: "Oh yes, I am definitely against it. We're talking about something that destroys people's lives . . . to the point that they're no longer normal human beings." Reagan drew an angry picture of future decadence: "You drive down the highway, and you look...
Although Amsterdam and Post Publisher Peter O. Price insist that the essential character of the paper will not change, it is already in transition. Under Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, the Post lost millions trying to win blue- collar readers away from the rival Daily News, while attracting a scant 10% of New York City's newspaper advertising dollars. After rescuing the paper from imminent death when Murdoch was forced to sell it last February, Kalikow brought in Price, who switched it from afternoon to morning publication and launched an expensive campaign to woo upscale commuters...
Such fears are beginning to attach the unfashionable label to the "tanned look." Some sunbathers, though, insist that working up a tan goes beyond vanity. Tracey Mandell, 17, of Los Angeles, went to a salon for 30 minutes a day for two weeks before a Palm Springs vacation. Like many others, she is convinced that a parlor "base tan" effectively protects against sunburn. Some researchers agree, as long as the tanning is gradual. But many others contend it is a "myth" that a UVA base tan can provide protection. Dermatologist Gary Peck of the National Cancer Institute predicts that today...
...Director Fred Hargadon: "Stanford's greatest strength is being relatively young, which means that the university has considerably fewer traditions and obstacles to overcome in order to make changes." That sort of openness, notes Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy (B.A. 1958), encourages individuality: "The university is very careful to insist that its students remain themselves and not conform and that they develop their own special talents...
...were hitting the newsstands, Warwick Fairfax, the company's 27-year-old chief, decided to sell his fledgling American subdivision. At that point, Yates exercised an option to buy the two magazines. Yates and Summers are reluctant to disclose details of the purchase, but they insist that their backers, which include the State Bank of New South Wales and a major U.S. bank, have provided their new company, Matilda Publishing, with enough cash to get through the start-up period...