Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lived with two married parents, a daddy who worked and a mommy who stayed at home. And they have one good point: If one loving caregiver is good for a child, two are even better, especially when one is there full-time. Yet they go too far when they insist that this type of family not only functions better but is morally superior and right for everyone...
...prays for his demise. If Saddam falls, he will probably do so at the hands of his generals. By and large, they are no better than he is. Yet if they topple him, they will ask for the restoration of Iraq's sovereignty and territorial integrity. They will also insist on every dictatorship's favorite principle of international law: noninterference in internal affairs. That would mean a license to send Baghdad's bombers and troops north to crush the Kurds...
...plan to distribute to all Russian citizens, beginning Oct. 1, vouchers that they can exchange for shares in state-owned businesses. But the next -- or even the same -- day policy veers backward. The former communists succeeded in wangling increased subsidies to keep alive outmoded enterprises that free- marketeers insist should be allowed to go bankrupt. The contradictions could worsen Russia's economic slump by reigniting hyperinflation. And more economic misery could eventually undermine democracy as well -- even though Volsky's Civic Union could theoretically be viewed as a Russian version of that democratic Western institution the loyal opposition...
...avowed aim is to become a "constructive opposition," offering an "alternative program" to the free-market policies pursued by Acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. In practice, though, its focus is on propping up the aging, inefficient steel mills, tractor works and other state- owned industrial dinosaurs. Gaidar and others insist that they must be allowed to go out of business, despite the immediate pain, if Russia is ever to have an efficient, modern economy. But Civic Union contends that the resulting mass unemployment would simply be too great, and that argument seems to be converting some reformers. Says Sergei Stankevich...
...face of it, negotiations have broken down over the issue of which political body is to draft the new constitution. The NP, the party of the majority of whites, and the IFP, the Zulu's party, insist that the constitution should be written at Codesa, where each of the three major organizations has an equal...