Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overwhelming majority of prayer advocates, of course, would be horrified by such tactics. It is their freedom to pray, they insist, that has been taken away by a zealous cadre of secularists, and they are only trying to reclaim it, without coercing anyone. Polls have consistently shown heavy majorities in favor of school prayer; Gallup reported last September that 81% of respondents who had followed the issue supported an amendment that would permit "voluntary" prayer, vs. only 14% opposed. Says Dan Alexander, president of a Mobile, Ala., organization called Save Our Schools: "We've allowed a small, very vocal...
...render it laughable to posterity. Today's college students were innocent by standers during the age of the perilous Platform Shoe, but they were willing (albeit junior) accomplices during the reign of Discowear and the Farrah-Do. Their historical reputation will be further pockmarked by the city dwellers who insist on dressing like cow punchers, cattle wrestlers, and bronco busters...
...They favor redistribution of income, nationalization of foreign trade and land reform. "We please the middle and lower classes," said President Seyed Ali Khamene'i, 44, last summer, "and let big landlords, big factory owners and the wealthy seethe in discontent." Opposing them are the ultrarightist clerics who insist that the Koran unequivocally condemns such socialistic practices. The Prophet Muhammad, they point out, was once a merchant, who said, "The merchant is among God's favorites." The leftists were rebuffed 16 months ago when the social reform bills they proposed were vetoed by the Guardian Council. But last...
...runs. Ever since Lenin dissolved the freely elected Constituent Assembly in 1918, the U.S.S.R. has been ruled through interlocking hierarchies: the nonelected Communist Party Politburo and Central Committee, and the 1,500-member Supreme Soviet, which meets in full session only about 48 hours a year. Still, the Soviets insist on going through the motions of an election for this nominal parliament, if only to pay homage to the trappings of democracy. If it were not for the fact that there is practically no freedom of choice, the Soviet electoral process would look almost normal...
...Gulf acquisition by another major oil company would present some antitrust problems, but legal experts do not believe that the Reagan Administration would object. If either Arco or Socal buys Gulf, however, the Government might insist on the sale of some refineries and gas stations to preserve competition...