Word: insist
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...question is this: If he is not to veto sanctions on Iran, what can Hu get that he doesn't already have? For starters, there is North Korea. If it is going to abstain on sanctions against Iran, says one Western diplomat in Beijing, China will probably insist on an absolute, "don't-even-think-about-it" rejection of any U.S. plans to take North Korea and its nukes to the Council. China doesn't want to put more pressure on Kim Jong Il's regime. It wants less - in part so that fewer refugees from North Korea cross into...
...change of heart? Bush has always shared the conservative aversion to big government programs, his aides insist. There are also short-term political points at stake. The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal makes this an ideal time to go after what are known as earmarks--that is, spending placed in legislation, often without public review, for specific projects. That pork is a mainstay of the lobbying industry. And there is little money to spend anyway, so Bush might as well retool himself as a fearless budget cop. "Listen, we got a lot of people in Washington who preach fiscal discipline...
Republicans insist that January's rough transition will be all but forgotten by November. And they will remind voters that Democrats were unable to get any drug benefit, however flawed, passed while they were in power. "Seniors would have nothing if it weren't for Republicans passing this plan," says Amy Call, spokeswoman for Senate majority leader Bill Frist. G.O.P. leaders have so far rejected the major changes proposed by Democrats, including allowing direct negotiation with drugmakers and easing the rules on reimportation of drugs from Canada...
...especially sensitive to claims that he allows the U.S. to conduct military operations in Pakistan. U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker was summoned to the foreign ministry to receive a formal protest. Information Minister Sheik Rashid Ahmed announced, "We will not allow such incidents to reoccur." But U.S. officials insist that some of the intelligence for the strike was provided by Pakistan's intelligence service...
...Orleans, just as they had during his previous visits to the stricken city. So George W. Bush last week proclaimed himself pleased with the city's progress after his motorcade drove past the largely undamaged 19th century mansions of St. Charles Street. His friends and fund raisers in town insist that the President "gets it," as shipyard owner Boysie Bollinger says. They have kept up the heat on the White House by hammering home the theme that Katrina didn't doom the city; poor levee construction by the Federal Government did. Still, although Bush repeated his promise to help rebuild...