Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thoroughbred Racing Associations. It is a three-horse race: the Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Slew O'Gold, the French filly All Along and Devil's Bag. Only Secretariat ever won it at two, when the older candidates were weaker. So some voters may insist on seeing Devil's Bag challenged first. "Some day we're going to have to call on him," says Stephens, "and you'll see a horse who'll fight back." As it happens, the second most impressive two-year-old, Swale, is another pupil of Woody...
Increasingly, and perhaps irreversibly, audiences for American mainstream music will depend, even insist, on each song's being a full audiovisual confrontation. Why should sound alone be enough when sight is only as far away as the TV set or the video machine? Whole generations have had their brains fried with a cathode ray tube, a condition that creates a certain impatience and shortness of attention when limited to aural input. Posterity can rest easy-as Billy Joel points out, "Beethoven didn't have no videos, and he's been hanging in there"-but for rockers, popsters...
Others contend that such an analysis is far too rosy. "Syria will never leave Lebanon unless it is forced to evacuate," says an Israeli general. Even if Syria is guaranteed influence in Lebanese affairs, according to British diplomats, Damascus will still insist on the return of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as the price for its withdrawal from Lebanon. Sooner or later, in the view of many Middle East experts in the U.S. and Western Europe, Syria must be brought into negotiations for a Palestinian homeland. As one senior British diplomat puts it: "Like it or not, Syria...
...told Israeli journalists when he returned home. "We did not pay for whatever we got from the Americans." Shamir made no promise to freeze settlements in the West Bank or to go along with U.S. plans to continue to provide sophisticated military aid to moderate Arab nations. U.S. officials insist they never expected Shamir to yield on such matters. Their modest hope, said one, is that Shamir, unlike Begin, will not "throw a tantrum" whenever the U.S. tries to strengthen its friendship with Arab nations...
...imagines. Many other weapons scientists, arms-control experts and Congressmen in both parties see a historic opportunity slipping away: the chance to avoid an arms race in space. Opponents of the space-based defensive system argue that its extraordinarily high cost would be the least of its disadvantages. They insist that the technical obstacles are practically insurmountable and that building such weapons could encourage a panicky, preemptive nuclear attack by the Soviets...