Word: insist
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Contributing to the council's rapidly declining campus presence is a static debate lacking substance and misguided by simplistic solutions. Critics, who belittle the organization as incompetent and ineffectual, say the answer lies in focusing on larger issues instead of trivial whims. Others insist that the problem lies in an "apathetic" student body and that only by increasing voter turnout can the council can achieve the legitimacy it needs...
...America] should insist with its trading partners that they have policies that level the playing field [between American and foreign workers]," said William Lucy, president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists...
...short, you need to think before you spend. Before going back to the abacus, however, know that the skeptics are still outnumbered by economists and executives who insist that business on the whole is more productive. Economist Allen Sinai of Primark Decision Economics points out that the U.S. has lately enjoyed "superstrong growth, superlow inflation and a superlow unemployment rate." That could not happen if productivity were really as low as the official figures indicate, he says; the numbers--er, do not compute. So productivity must be increasing faster than calculated, and one likely reason is computerization. Maybe the experts...
...that's the long game. For now, those close to Gingrich insist, he has no choice but to continue on the treacherous course that has been set. He is boxed in between two opposing forces: majority public opinion and the 100 or so most conservative members of his party in the House, the very lawmakers to whom he owes his speakership. "To the solid core of Republicans who have hated Clinton since Day One, to back off now would be heresy," says a top G.O.P. lobbyist. "It would also destroy Gingrich's political ambitions." And in a year when voter...
...Instead, as in much of her recent work, Mitchell writes trite stories of unconvincing relationships and reserves her passion to bemoan the corruption of society. All this isn't so much unpleasant as just plain flimsy. The best she can muster, for example, to explain societal degradation is to insist simplistically that "lawyers and loan sharks/are laying America to waste." There are small pleasures to be had on Taming the Tiger, like Mitchell's confidently unconventional melodies, her dark and smoke-ravaged voice and the occasional appearances of deft saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Still, one can't help but wonder what...