Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike his predecessors, Presser basks in the limelight. He employs publicity agents and has been trying to cultivate a "statesmanlike" image, promising to lead the Teamsters in a "progressive new direction." His supporters say he has the aggressive style of leadership that the union needs. His detractors insist he will be hampered by the allegations of corruption and ties to organized crime that have dogged him over the years. Presser has never been charged with a crime and has denied all allegations. But he is under investigation by the Labor Department for allegations that his Ohio local was signing paychecks...
...many trips to the country. His friend, John Worthing (Henry Woronicz) has a similar stratagem: he is Ernest in town and Jack in the country. The drama focuses on the confusion engendered by these men's double identities when they meet their lovers-to-be--who both insist that their husbands be named Ernest...
...Reagan was obliged to drop it.) Clark took over the Administration's El Salvador policy, and the resulting harder line has produced a backlash in Congress. He has generally backed Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's resistance to budget cuts, even when it was clear that Congress would insist on trims. Clark is getting much of the blame for the politically costly skirmishing over Kenneth Adelman's nomination as arms-control chief; he was Adelman's main sponsor. And last month Clark encouraged Reagan to make his star wars missile-defense speech, despite the worries of other...
...that most Central American refugees are ineligible to be granted asylum under U.S. law because they are fleeing harsh economic conditions rather than political persecution. The INS declares that there is no proof that those deported from the U.S. have been tortured or executed, although Salvadorans in the U.S. insist that those who have been sent back have disappeared or been mistreated...
Rebelling against the "systematizes," Tuchman has instead spread a vision of the historian as artist, and advocated history for its own sake. "Is it necessary to insist on a purpose" Tuchman wrote...