Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale has been making some mid-course adjustments to his foreign policy positions, though aides insist they do not add up to the "move to the right" that some analysts have claimed. "There's a different political context from the primaries," says Carter. "He's saying the same things with a different emphasis." Even so, in an interview with the New York Times last week, Mondale said that as President he would have used force in Grenada "to go in there and protect American lives," just as Reagan did last October...
...University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School last March 20, Nobel-Prize winning economist Lawrence Klein was giving an introductory economics lecture when three followers of political guru Lyndon LaRouche burst in, accusing Klein of Nazism and genocide. Klein responded, "I insist that you are a bunch of screwballs, and would you please get out," and university police arrived and evicted the LaRouchites. Two weeks later, the South African ambassador to the United States was scheduled to come to Penn to speak on apartheid, but opted out when members of the eight-group United Minorities Council threatened a mass demonstration...
...including their stand on abortion. But he noted that "on divorce and birth control, without changing its moral teaching, the church abides the civil law as it now stands, thereby accepting-without making much of a point of it-that in our pluralistic society we are not required to insist that all our religious values be the law of the land." Whether and precisely how to turn church teachings into public policy, Cuomo argued, "is not a matter of doctrine; it is a matter of prudential political judgment...
...have broad latitude to conduct private meetings for their members in the manner they think best. It may be good judgment for an organization to invite others with a particular interest in an outside speaker to attend even if they have sharply opposing views. But the University should not insist that an organization invite nonmembers to hear a speaker whenever there is reason to believe that they might wish to come. For example, the Republican Club should be able to invite political figures to speak at private meetings without having to allow members of the Democratic Club to attend participate...
...have broad latitude to conduct private meetings for their members in the manner they think best. It may be good judgement for an organization to invite others with a particular interest in an outside speaker to attend even if they have sharply opposing views. But the University should not insist that an organization invite nonmembers to hear a speaker whenever there is reason to believe that they might wish to come. For example, the Republican Club should be able to invite political figures to speak without having to allow members of the Democratic Club to attend and participate...