Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insult in the Middle East, Bashir returned to Beirut protesting that "they won't let me have my dignity." Amin does not share his brother's fondness for Israel, and the Begin government is determined to treat him with more consideration. Officials say that they will not insist on a peace treaty, and concede that the best guarantee of security along Israel's northern border is a peaceful, united Lebanon...
...partly to shore up a slumping level of confidence that Britain suggested to China earlier this year that it was time to discuss the colony's future. When the Prime Minister arrived in Peking, she ran into a diplomatic impasse. China's leaders insist that they do not recognize any of the earlier treaties and demand full sovereignty over the entire colony. The British, fresh from a victorious war of sovereignty in the South Atlantic, have adopted an equally hard stand. As Thatcher said in Peking: "We stick by our treaties, unless we agree on something else...
...officials insist that there was no such document. But they concede that Habib did give the P.L.O. oral promises through Lebanese intermediaries that the Palestinians would be safe. The reason, according to one senior White House aide: "We had guarantees from the Israelis, which we believed were adequate." When P.L.O. officials charge that the U.S. must share some responsibility for not preventing the massacre, another official admits: "Quite candidly, they have a case...
Many industrialists insist that if the plan is carried out the exodus of Swedish firms will accelerate. Faced with workers who earn the world's highest wages and a 57% tax on profits, Swedish companies have placed as much as one-quarter of the country's total investments overseas. A European Community survey of 120 European business managers conducted this year named Sweden as a country with one of the worst business climates...
Just why mega-companies like Bendix insist on embarking on such excursions of sound and fury that, of course, signify nothing comprises a small mystery. Clearly, diminished federal regulation plays a part. Yet in the case of Bendix, Agee must have known that his gamble would meet with strong resistance--from Marietta...