Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gentle hero of William Wharton's third novel explains: "Our family name is Knott. My parents wanted to call me Bill or Billy, but because there's no Saint Bill or Billy, I was named William. They insist no joke was intended. By third grade at school, I was Will Knott. I learned to live with it, my private martyrdom. So I was more or less prepared to grit it out again in the army, Willingly or Knott (Ha!). What I wasn't ready for was the conglomeration of certified wise guys and punsters called...
...election, proponents quickly brought the question to the House floor. But there, they found unexpectedly strong opposition. Not only did the discussion in the lower chamber drag on, but a majority of the members approved a pair of amendments that effectively reversed the original meaning of the statement--to insist that a freeze take place only when the Russians cleaned up their act in Poland, and saw the error of 35 years of foreign policy, and withdrew from Eastern Europe...
...fact, is convinced that the U.S. knows he will never cooperate with Reagan's plan, and that the underlying tactic of the Reagan Administration is to try to build up political opposition in Israel that would knock him out of office and install Labor's Peres. U.S. officials insist that there is no truth to that suspicion or to the Israeli claim that they have suddenly become pro-Arab. The hope of the Administration is to get both the Israelis and the Arabs to bend. But if all else failed, some U.S. officials privately concede, the Administration would be pleased...
...area," and Thomas Dine, executive director of the 30,000-member American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the official lobby for American pro-Israeli groups, initially declared that he saw "a lot of value" in them. But after the Arab League at its summit meeting in Fez, Morocco, continued to insist on an independent Palestinian state, the A.I.P.A.C. issued a formal statement charging that Reagan's plan had fallen victim to "the classic pattern of Arab duplicity and American naiveté." The A.I.P.A.C. has nevertheless asserted that "there were positive points in the President's initiative...
...next few months, longer-term aid will likely have to come directly from the IMF. The government of President José López Portillo has asked for between $4 billion and $5 billion in three-year credits, but before granting it, the fund is expected to insist on a package of tough austerity measures that may include higher taxes and a sharp cutback in government spending...