Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other aides insist that the President likes to make decisions, but they agree that he does place great emphasis on the policy salesman's role?as indeed a President must, although it should hardly be his top priority. They claim, for example, that Reagan spends more time than any other modern President writing and editing his own remarks. A corollary to this stress on communication, notes Deaver, is that "you should never try to make him do something he doesn't believe in, because if you do that, we will fail. The greatest asset this Administration has is Ronald Reagan...
...freshman who arrived at college to find a liberal atmosphere fostered by professors who make Tip O'Neill sound like Barry Goldwater. It is encouraging to know that I am not alone in my fight against teachers who insist that a liberal interpretation of facts is the only right...
...Washington declared that it wanted to link Namibian independence and the withdrawal of some 20,000 South African troops stationed in the territory to the pullout of an estimated 20,000 Cuban troops from neighboring Marxist-led Angola. At first the South African government said that it would "not insist" on Cuban withdrawal as part of the independence deal. But now South African Prime Minister Botha is demanding a "clear agreement" on the Cuban departure...
...board should seize that opportunity and insist that chief among these concessions be an intensive review of Harvard Real Estate--its management, personnel and its conduct--carried out by members of an independent branch of the University, preferably special assistants to President...
...several judges who have tried and unfortunately prosecuted resistors themselves have felt, the HRC has voted to "support registration, prosecution of those refusing to register, and the cutting of student aid to such individuals." It is said that in such an enlightened community as Harvard that students would insist upon coercion to prevent free expression...