Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trial. Not so pleased are the families of the murdered Americans, who contend that El Salvador is covering up the involvement of superior officers in the killings. Lawyers for the relatives informed the State Department last week that they would not participate in the trial. But U.S. officials insist that there simply is no evidence that high-ranking Guardsmen were involved. Says a U.S. diplomat in El Salvador: "The sad thing is that these families are being used by people not interested in justice but in political crusades, like cutting off all aid to El Salvador...
...Britain ownership of the remaining 34 sq. mi.-Hong Kong island and portions of Kowloon-" in perpetuity.") Although an arrangement short of total reversion may eventually be worked out between London and Peking, permitting Hong Kong to continue to function as it does now, some fear that China will insist on full sovereignty. That could mean the end of Hong Kong's capitalistic ways. Reflecting such worries, share prices on the Hong Kong exchange have dropped 21.5% since September, and the value of the Hong Kong dollar has slumped 8.6% against the U.S. dollar...
Most major papers insist that their affirmative-action programs explicitly favor minority applicants. Ed Storin, an assistant managing editor of the Miami Herald, reflects the view of many newspaper executives: "If we had a white person and a black person with the same abilities, we would definitely pick the black." As a result, minority journalists can often short-cut the traditional start in small towns and move quickly to big, well-paying papers. But they remain nonetheless a minority; 60% of the nation's newsrooms are all white, and integration has been stalled by economic hard times...
...been accused of ordering the 1981 murders of two U.S. land-reform experts and a Salvadoran labor leader. So the State Department decided to go public with its warning. Says a senior policymaker: "The situation called for a clear, public enunciation of our policy." State Department officials insist that they have heard no whisper of discontent from the White House about Hinton's performance. Hinton also denies that he has been chastised by his superiors in the Administration. "We have a policy of private diplomacy and we only go public from time to time," he said last week. Indeed...
...long haul (20 years or more) but also because of other qualities, especially the ability to innovate. The excellent companies, say the authors, "fawn" on their customers and learn from them. The best managers value action above all else, a spirit of "do it, fix it, try it." They insist on top quality in their products. They solicit their employees' ideas and "treat them like adults," allowing talented people "long tethers" for experimenting. To uncover these characteristics, the authors spent considerable time at each company. Said Waterman: "We didn't talk just to top management. We talked with...