Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vagueness of the Clinton proposal has allowed the G.O.P. to lump it together with various congressional plans that lack, according to Clinton aides, the kind of cost controls that Clinton himself would insist upon. But the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Clinton health-care plan, such as it is, would require about $80 billion in new taxes. Clinton aides insist that there will be no payroll tax in their health proposal, which would be funded instead by direct government subsidies to cover those who are too poor to afford private health insurance. But they admit that despite their candidate...
...most common perception is that bisexuals are basically straights with a taste for exotic adventure or essentially gays who are unable or unwilling to acknowledge their true orientation. To growing numbers of bisexuals, however, as well as therapists and researchers, this is nonsense. They insist that bisexuality is not a walk on the wild side or a run from reality but has a legitimate identity of its own. Explains John Craig, a 40-year-old writer in Amherst, Mass., who organizes weekend retreats for bisexual men: "I want to experience contact with a man's body and with a woman...
...another called Lying in State. Both are about male high school teachers who seduce male students. The controversial content of those works might have made prospective employers leery of hiring Bateman to teach at a boarding school. Yet administrators at New Hampshire's Phillips Exeter Academy insist that they never bothered to read his dissertation. At least, not until life on campus began to imitate...
Fear that compromise is a slippery slope causes Congressional supporters of the Freedom of Choice Act to dig in their heels and insist that permitting any restrictions undercut the legitimacy of the right to choose...
...maneuvering room is shrinking. The allies are determined now to rein him in lest the U.N. lose credibility and Saddam be tempted by further adventures. They plan to insist that Americans serve on future inspection teams, to spotlight every Iraqi evasion of U.N. resolutions, and to boost aid to Kurds and exiled opponents of Saddam. This week the Security Council is expected to take up a resolution permitting military strikes unless Baghdad stops attacking Shi'ites in the south. The strategy, says a U.S. diplomat, is to "keep Saddam...