Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What Larrabee and others know is that NATO has always been more than a security alliance. "We understood this at the beginning," says Larrabee. "West Germany wasn't a stable democracy before it was allowed into NATO. Belonging to the alliance helped it become one. It's silly to insist that the Central Europeans must be functioning democrats before they can join up. NATO can help them on that road, as it also helped stem authoritarian backsliding in Portugal, Spain, Greece and Turkey...
...myself, do Stager's friends insist on defending him against imagined charges of anti-Semitism? I am afraid they need this distraction because they cannot defend him against the real criticisms and charges that have, in fact, been made against him, not only be me but, most tellingly, many people who worked under his jurisdiction: he raised no money for the museum; he bullied and intimidated museum staff; he curbed free speech by forbidding museum employees to speak about the museum without his approval; and he violated their right to privacy by hi-tech scavenging for mail not addressed...
...free-spending ways of the tabloid shows have had a widespread impact. Network reporters trying to land an interview are now accustomed to fielding one question up front: "How much will you pay?" The networks claim they do not pay for interviews, though tabloid sources insist that such payments are often disguised as "consultant fees" to freelance producers or as purchases of video footage. The tabloids too are suffering the consequences of their checkbook journalism. In the wake of the Michael Jackson child-abuse charges, people started coming out of the woodwork offering dubious tales of other alleged abuse involving...
Even when they do pay for stories, tabloid producers insist, the practice is used carefully and does not compromise credibility. Inside Edition anchor Bill O'Reilly argues that paying for interviews is a legitimate way of competing with the networks, whose offer of prime-time national exposure carries more clout. "To level the playing field, we have to offer incentives to some people to come on our air." Some journalistic watchdogs agree that the traditional stigma against pay-for-play reporting may be breaking down -- and for good reason. "It's hard to argue that the ordinary person shouldn...
...Northern League, an upstart populist movement centered in Milan, continued to gain power. It has threatened nothing less than the partition of the country into autonomous federations, dividing < the wealthy north from the poor south. The Democratic Party of the Left, formerly the Italian Communist Party, continues to insist that it represents the workers and the poor, but now without Marxist dogma. The neofascists of the Italian Social Movement played to widespread anxiety about public order. But despite their claims of moderation, they are plagued by a fringe of noisy skinheads, racists and thugs who remind Italians of the disastrous...