Word: insistence
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...determine when a company's behavior was sufficiently objectionable to merit this treatment. Such an effort would also raise extremely difficult and divisive questions. If an university health service purchases abortion services from a neighboring clinic, some people may claim that it is subsidizing murder while others will insist that the practice is legitimate, and perhaps even obligatory...
...alter the personal income tax cuts to give greater relief to middle-income Americans. Explained Wright: "The President, in order to protect his own image, has to have some kind of multiyear approach. We're going to have to yield on that. But we're going to insist on more help for the middle class. The Administration is going to have to yield some...
...emerging deal still faces many obstacles, and Dole and Rostenkowski will meet privately this week in the Capitol to tackle them. If a final bargain is reached, the Democrats will insist that Reagan give it unqualified public support before it is brought to a vote. Says Wright: "If Congress is going to give birth to his child, then Reagan must own up to its paternity." -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Douglas Brew and Neil MacNeil/Washington
...behind-the-scenes maneuvering, neither Israel nor Syria was publicly giving in on the sticking points. Begin continued to insist that Israel would not agree to any limitations of Israeli air activity over Lebanon. Last week he appeared to be upping the ante again, when he declared that Syria must remove all missiles deployed "after the outbreak of the crisis," including those just inside the Syrian border that can strike at Israeli planes-a demand almost impossible for Damascus to meet. There also was growing concern in Jerusalem over the Saudis' emerging role as peacemaker. Some Israelis claim that...
...sell the latest offensive aircraft, the F-15s and F-16s, to Israel. But selling defensive aircraft like AWACS to Saudi Arabia is wrong. This country couldn't ask for a better friend in the Middle East than Saudi Arabia. Yet Congress continues to insist on treating the Saudis as if they were lepers...