Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned to the advantage of the President, and his party, in this fall's campaign. Reagan could have been portrayed as the tightfisted Chief Executive doing battle with a spendthrift Congress. Even though the action in the Republican Senate seems to undermine that strategy, Reagan's advisers insist that their boss intends to stick with that theme on the campaign trail. "Instead of the President vs. the Democrats in Congress, it is now the President vs. those in Congress who favor big spending," says one aide. "It's still a no-lose situation...
...know it's not a gut--how's that?" he responds. "That particular criticism may bother me, but there's not much I can do about it. If people perceive a reading load with fewer pieces of literature but where I try to insist on having that read carefully and really mastered, if they perceive that as a gut, fine...
...much of Banco Ambrosiano does the I.O.R. really own? Italian financial sources suggest that I.O.R. ownership may run as high as 10%. Vatican officials insist that the figure is exaggerated, but have left open the possibility that the Vatican bank's ownership may exceed the officially reported...
...kids as handicapped. There is no limit to where you can take them after you find the key." Despite the well-publicized view of New York Physician Harold Levinson, who argues that dyslexia is a disorder of the inner ear and can be dealt with by taking antihistamines, experts insist that dyslexia is not a disease...
...standard before CinemaScope." Director Martin Scorsese is launching a film-preservation committee that will attempt to ensure, among other things, that "if film makers make a picture in 'Scope, it gets shown that way on television." And Spielberg, who says that Manhattan looked "wonderful" masked, is going to "insist" that the next network showing of Close Encounters be masked as well. "Maybe I've got no contractual right," he says, "and it should be a friendly thing. But I am going to fight...