Word: insist
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...with Pyongyang over peace on the Korean peninsula, says TIME's David Jackson. "For years the North has tried to go around the South and negotiate directly with the US. Basically, North Korea figures Washington is easier to bargain with than South Korea, but U.S. policy has been to insist that the future of the Korean Peninsula be settled between Pyongyang and Seoul." Although both countries are still technically at war, having never signed a peace treaty, both see reunification as inevitable. With each incursion, Jackson says, North Korea is trying to improve a bargaining position made weak by recent...
...call for a full girlcott of all the Harvard Square restaurants that insist on keeping their so-called "menus...
...Deutch's grab for power is designed to advance his own career. The rumor circulating in Langley is that his secret game plan is to take over the Defense Department if Clinton wins a second term and if Perry resigns to return to private life. Deutch's senior aides insist that for now, his power is the spies' best friend. "At the end of the day, are we better off with John Deutch at the CIA?" asks his deputy Tenet. "The answer is yes." Considering how low the agency has sunk, what is good for John Deutch may be good...
Some conference participants suggest that the Federal Government establish an annual award for family-friendly companies--much like the coveted Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. And they insist that the issue be seen as affecting both men and women. Yet recognizing that the work-family dilemma has often been felt most acutely by women, Harvard's Minow concludes, "Our best hope is CEOs with daughters...
...cereal makers insist that their products are a bargain, particularly with discount coupons. Even without them, the industry estimates that the average cost of a bowl of cereal, including milk, is about 35'. Yet shoppers who watch their families gobble up a $5 box of cereal in a couple of sittings still consider the cost to be considerable. Ann Rhodes, a mother with three children at home in Waterford Township, Michigan, says of her family, which can shred seven boxes of cereal weekly, "The 14-year-old will eat a whole box if you let him, and the 11-year...