Word: insist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...
...overhaul Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid all at once, saying these entitlement programs would hamstring today's children. Aides say that with Democrats in no mood to help, he will start with Social Security but is not going in with his past no-new-taxes swagger, nor will he insist on private accounts, as he did in 2005, though he wants to wind up with both. An official calls it the "new reality...
...Republicans insist they won't take it lying down this time around. They say they'll flex their power to block passage of spending items - which require a two-thirds majority in both houses that Democrats can't muster without their help - as a way to force themselves into the horsetrading sessions. Having received assurances from the Governor that deficit reduction is a priority and that he won't raise taxes, the G.O.P. has installed new statehouse leaders who say they intend to hold him to his word - and to keep him from completely caving to Democrats. "If we have...
...Israel Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ended decades of ambiguity about his country's nuclear capabilities when he inadvertently named Israel in a list of countries that possess such weapons. Officials insist he was misinterpreted, but Iran is pressing the U.N. to place Israel's facilities under inspection - a move the U.S. would most likely veto...
...incorporate the amphibious moves of dancers filmed in motion-capture suits and weave them back into the computer-generated characters, so that the sight of 10,000 penguins gyrating to Prince's Kiss seems not only weirdly natural but also pretty cool. And being George Miller, he would insist that his tap-dancing hero Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) be composed of no less than six million CGI penguin feathers...