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Word: insist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most players insist this isn't a serious problem, so Itech needn't worry about designing an air conditioning system...

Author: By Ted Ullyot, | Title: Checkmating Injuries | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

Cable executives insist that their series are different from network fare, in many cases more daring in language and subject matter. Usually that simply means a gratuitous glimpse of skin here, an expletive undeleted there. Brothers' treatment of homosexuality, for example, is a touch more explicit than ABC or CBS might allow. Yet in most ways the show is indistinguishable from a typical Norman Lear sitcom of the mid-1970s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Networking: Cable goes in for sitcoms | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...write, produce, and star in her own movie when she has the talent for none of these things? Why, furthermore, did Burgess Meredith (alias The Penguin) direct this play in New York, and why did it run longer than two days? And most of all, why does Flanagan insist on showing off her bestockinged legs, when there is so little to show off? These questions, like many Irish mysteries, can only be answered by some form of blarney, of which there is also plenty in this film...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: An Epic Failure | 11/1/1985 | See Source »

...want you to do two things. In my name, I want you to call (the Egyptian Foreign Minister), tell him what we've learned, tell him the circumstances, tell him that in view of this and the fact that we, and presumably they, didn't have those facts, we insist that they prosecute those sons of bitches. The second thing: I want you to pick up the phone and call Washington and tell them what we've done. And if they want to follow it up, that's fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The Voyage of The Achille Lauro | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...spite of the embargo, seven students have taken it upon themselves to solicit funds, books and medical supplies to donate to Nicaragua. The grads insist that because they are donating the goods they are not breaking the embargo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ec Grads Start Nicaraguan Fund | 10/15/1985 | See Source »

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