Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Industry experts think the FSLIC can scrape by until Congress returns in January, and S and L officials insist that depositors are in no danger of losing their money. Says William O'Connell, president of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions: "I don't think there is a crisis. The whole U.S. Government stands behind the deposit-insurance funds...
...participants in this nighttime battle royal, however, insist that it is not a duel to the death. "We don't see ourselves as pitted against Johnny Carson," says Barry Diller, chairman of Fox Inc., Rivers' corporate parent. "We're just aiming at improving the performance of the independent stations that carry us." Rivers, who roused Carson's ire last spring when she left for the competition without telling him first, is also sounding a conciliatory note: "My people will watch me; Johnny's people will watch him . . . We can all make it; the pie just...
...Moscow, Gennady Gerasimov, a spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry, said "if the United States will insist on continuing this game of tit-for-tat, then this can continue indefinitely. We consider it is time to stop...
This is not to insist that Gorbachev should fear a coup by his generals and other hard-line conservatives. But even Gorbachev can go only so far. Some American observers dispute that. As they point out, all too often in the past there have been rumors that Americans should be more flexible in their policies towards the Soviet Union because one Soviet leader or another found himself in difficulty. There were even such rumors about Stalin. Yet the fact remains that there were similar rumors about Krushchev just before he was deposed...
...Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey of the Notre Dame de Namur order, have refused to disavow a newspaper ad they signed in 1984 contending that there are various legitimate Catholic views on abortion. Rome hoped the ad signers would back down gracefully, but Ferraro and Hussey, and perhaps others, insist on a showdown that could end in Vatican-ordered expulsions...