Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Advocates of the amendment call a doleful roll: 21 deficits in the past 22 fiscal years; a national debt that now tops $1 trillion; interest on that debt, at $83 billion a year, which exceeds the total of all federal spending 25 years ago. These numbers, they insist, prove that Congress and the White House cannot resist the pressures from special interests to squander the taxpayers' money unless a prohibition is written into the Constitution. Says Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, the amendment's chief sponsor...
...assistant, yes, I'd use it," he explains. "But it's a lot of work to punch in questions. My assistant is easier to work with." Says Kerry Orr of computer maker Control Data Corp. in Atlanta: "Most executives are intimidated by a keyboard." While computer firms insist that even the most ham-handed executive can be taught to operate a computer in a matter of hours, executive resistance remains high. Orr observes, "They normally are not honest enough to say, 'I don't want to use it because I'm afraid...
...trouble is the Soviets insist that equality now exists. They agreed to SALT II because, in their assessment-which was shared by many Americans-the treaty acknowledged that equality. Leonid Brezhnev keeps urging his own version of a freeze, partly because he believes the present level of nuclear arsenals assures what he calls "equal security...
...Americans are also distressed by the strategic planning in the Salvadoran high command. U.S. advisers stress that army troops should concentrate on making secure such vital zones as the cotton farms and cattle ranches of Usulutan, the western pasture lands and the capital itself. The Americans also insist that the army should make every effort to consolidate control of the nation's highways, where guerrillas have robbed motorists and burned some 80 vehicles in the past two weeks. Instead, the Defense Minister, General Jose Guillermo Garcia, decided to commit crack regiments to chase after guerrillas in Morazan...
...pretty much decided to accept his resignation. Until the European trip, Reagan had regarded Haig's volcanic behavior with a kind of uneasy tolerance. But shortly after the presidential party returned to the U.S., Reagan agreed with key aides that the frictions had become insupportable. White House aides insist that there was no plot to get Haig; in fact, they thought that it would be best if the Secretary of State stayed on until after the November congressional elections. So Reagan would not directly ask Haig to quit-but he resolved that the next time Haig threatened to resign...