Word: insist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While a more robust recovery would put people back to work faster, the slow but steady tempo has a positive side of its own. Among other things, it gives investors the confidence to put their money in longer-term investments. On Wall Street outspoken bulls insist that the stock market still has plenty of room to grow. Elaine Garzarelli, an investment strategist for Lehman Bros., looks for the Dow to hit 4000 by the end of the year and climb to 4600 in 1994. "My feeling is that any correction would be minor," Garzarelli says. "Interest rates would have...
...little-noticed policy initiative last week, James Collins, the former acting ambassador in Moscow, was assigned to provide U.S. "good offices" to ex-Soviet republics that would like outside help in settling disputes with their neighbors. U.S. officials insist that Collins will mediate only when both parties to a conflict want him to, that Washington will never deploy peacekeeping troops in the former U.S.S.R., and that the U.S. will scrupulously avoid manipulating the politics of Russia's neighbors for its own advantage. "We may never be able to convince every Russian that we have this altruistic motive," says a senior...
...left more than 100 dead. That stirred fears -- crudely exploited by the government -- of massive unrest or even a return to the tribal war that killed an estimated 1 million Nigerians two decades ago. But leaders of the Campaign for Democracy, a human-rights group spearheading the antigovernment demonstrations, insist that this is not an ethnic conflict. This fight is between those who want to bring democracy to Africa's most populous nation and the military leaders who have long imposed their will...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.g.'s., we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D's Consider C- a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all the exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name...