Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During an appearance in the White House briefing room in Washington, Reagan said: "I welcome the statement by Soviet Secretary-General Gorbachev on Saturday that the Soviet Union will no longer insist on linking agreement on reduction in INF (Intermediate Nuclear Force) to agreements in other negotiations...
...mustard streaked down her front; raced across the proscenium in a mermaid's spangled fin and a motorized wheelchair; wowed crowds with her renowned mammary-balloon ballet. So what can she do for a 1987 encore? Strut into her hit movie, Outrageous Fortune, abuse a defenseless pay phone and insist, "Gimme back my bleepin' quarta!" Hollywood may be far from Broadway, but for Bette Midler it's just another opening, another show...
Similarly, the Council has not, as you insist, "backed down" on the tenure issue. If anything the Council has moved forward on this question. While the Council will continue to work through the Committee on Undergraduate Education, members of the Academics Committee have also arranged to meet directly with the Dean of the Faculty, Michael Spence, to discuss student ideas on tenure. Furthermore, a second proposal on tenure, which will appear before the Council shortly, reiterates in stronger terms our call for student participation in the tenure process. It also recommends that the University reintroduce associate tenure...
Rebel leaders and U.S. embassy officials in the region insist that they favor more coverage, but CIA officers apparently feel different. "There are turf and policy battles going on," says an observer familiar with the guerrilla operation. "The State Department wants to provide access for correspondents because it needs to convince Congress that continued contra funding is worthwhile. The CIA reckons the chances of winning are better without the press looking over its shoulder...
...military has long accepted the necessity of civilian review, but the leaders of the Cambridge police have not followed suit. Instead, they insist that they can and should operate independently of the citizens they serve...