Word: insist
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What seems to generate the fear and the anger that permeates most of this issue, the disclaimers notwithstanding, is the notion that there is an increasing sense of credibility to the various efforts of bi-sexual, gay, and lesbian people to define themselves and to insist upon those self-definitions in relation to others. Despite the frequently stated view that this is a debate about the rights or wrongs of homosexuality, the real concern appears to be that the "debate" has become in recent times more even-handed and no longer framed exclusively in the hands and terms of those...
Politics, in any case, is monopolized mainly by vociferous gay organizations, gangs of neoprohibitionists and, of course, the ever resentful ecomaniacs, who have forsaken chocolate chip ice cream for Rainforest Crunch and who insist that the city's unspeakable degenerates (cigarette smokers) ask permission before they light up outside. While the city drifts, the board of supervisors issues wacky foreign policy statements. During the gulf war, the board declared the town a nuclear-free haven for draft dodgers. Across the bay in Berkeley it's even daffier: along with Fidel Castro, the city council is all that is left...
...Scholars insist that more needs to be done to educate the public about women's work rights. "We don't have a system of public education and of leadership for the need to protect civil rights," says Matsudo...
...that "Japan's alliance with the U.S. must be strengthened." He is willing to have Tokyo pay more of the cost of basing U.S. forces in Japan; he is eager to cooperate with Washington on diplomatic issues, such as Third World debt or U.N. peacekeeping ) operations. But he will insist that Japan be treated as a full partner in any joint effort and not merely be sent the bill afterward...
...European leaders insist it means no such thing. They repeat that they still consider NATO, with the U.S. fully engaged, as indispensable to their security. But their growing disagreements about the future shape of the alliance are now out in the open. The purported focus of their discussion is military, but the substance has become highly political. As the 12 nations of the European Community move closer together, its members are speaking up in NATO councils in favor of their own separate security identity to defend their Continent. A Bonn official explains that European economic and political unity logically implies...