Word: insist
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...produce concrete results rather than the general statements about reducing the threat of war that concluded the first Gorbachev-Reagan meeting in Geneva last November. In a striking turnaround, Gorbachev seemed to enhance the prospect for a deal on missiles in Europe by stating that the Soviets would not insist that the U.S. first agree to abandon research on a space- based defense system (Star Wars). According to Kennedy, Gorbachev said "in emphatic and unmistakable terms that there are no preconditions for negotiating immediate reductions" in intermediate-range nuclear forces...
...repeated shots that had been taped by WNEV-TV in Boston of Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe's parents viewing the launch at the Kennedy Space Center. But interviews with grieving relatives were refreshingly absent. Though NASA had immediately sequestered the crew's families following the accident, network executives insist they would have avoided such interviews in any case. "We had our chance at the time of the accident," says Jeff Gralnick, vice president and executive producer of special programming for ABC. "The first rule is not to badger the bereaved...
...President's opening gambit shows no give at all. The budget that he touts in his address to Congress and releases publicly on Wednesday is essentially a reiteration of his standard line. As he has done ever since he took office in 1981, Reagan will insist that it is possible to slash the deficit, increase defense spending (next year by 3% after inflation), and still not raise taxes. Using rosy economic forecasts to lowball the deficit, the White House would lop off the $40 billion or so mandated by Gramm-Rudman by making brutal cuts in domestic spending. Some federal...
Skiers who insist on posher treatment could look up Leonard-Ayer Expeditions, which is based in an old mining town in Idaho called Stanley (pop. 99). Joe Leonard, 46, a bearded, Idaho-born mountain man, expects to guide about 150 people this season into the Sawtooth Mountains, twice as many as three years ago. Camps for the tours are a couple of huts and a yurt, a large, round, tentlike structure, set a day's journey apart at the edge of the Sawtooth wilderness...
...state of the union is strong, and America is on the move, Reagan will insist. From the carefully crafted lines he has prepared, one of his favored themes emerges: give the people credit for the past five successful years. Cheer the family, the moms and pops who tended their kids, worked hard at their jobs, risked their savings in new ventures and honored their traditions. Those people got America moving, and it is high time to reduce the federal budget and "leave the family budget alone...