Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...informed public can force an examination and the media must assume the role of educator. People must insist that military budgets are not sacrosanct. The public must insist that military budgets be more thoroughly examined by Congress. It would be tragic if the nation spends $1.5 trillion for defense over the next few years only to learn that the nation prepared for the wrong war. That is what can happen if the majority of the members of Congress, the public and the press continue to view the publicity given to exotic systems such as the B-1 bomber...
City developers and business leaders insist that the market demand more office space and white collar industry. Harvard and MIT create many opportunities for research and development, small management, and consulting firms which rely on the resources and manpower of the two universities. Most recently, genetic research firms have shown a great interest in Cambridge. Four firms are trying to locate in the area, and one Biogen, has already moved in and is planning to expand its operation in Kendall Square...
...first is that contrary to what Sen. Orrin Hatch (R. -Utah) and his conservative colleagues will insist, the Hinckley verdict is not an expansion of the rights of the accused. It is novel only because the insanity defense has never worked in such a widely publicized case. The verdict, however, only reaffirms the prior knowledge free will foundation of American law. John Hinckley's inevitable consignment to a mental home does not eliminate the distinction between legal treatment of the "loons" and the "goons." Only several weeks ago, convicted assassin Sirhan B. Sirham, the murderer of Robert F. Kennedy...
...Saudis insist that a revolution like the one that occurred in Iran could not happen in their country. But they do have a large Shi'ite Muslim minority, ethnic kin to Iranian Shi'ites, who have traditionally been disadvantaged. After the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979 and the startling uprising by religious extremists at the Grand Mosque in Mecca later that year, King Khalid acted to improve contacts with disaffected elements in his country...
What does all that have to do with disarmament? Everything, said Reagan. The U.S. will insist that any arms-control agreements contain effective procedures for verification because the Soviets cannot be trusted. Without verification, said the President, "we are building a paper castle that will be blown away by the winds of war. Let me repeat: We need deeds, not words, to convince us of Soviet sincerity...