Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of it. "I guess it's just something we'll have to live with," said one high official in Israel at the time. Israelis assert that Shamir was given no hint that the deal might include AWACS and they now feel misled, even betrayed. U.S. officials insist that Shamir was told specifically that AWACS might be included...
...area residents, afraid that deletion of the overlay lines would water down the proposal and make institutional expansion easier, agreed at a meeting early last week that they would insist on the districts...
...made only a month before Giscard's explanation-and a full 15 months after the issue was first raised. Giscard's Olympian conception of his office reaches even into the protocol of the Elysée Palace. At state dinners he has been known to insist on the regal deference of being served first even when his guests include national leaders and women. One guest happened to be both: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Giscard claims that he ordered his staff to follow the same rules of protocol as in the era of Charles de Gaulle...
...decision is made on a case-by-case basis, factoring in the experience of the reporter, the nature of the source's information and the likely consequences of the story. Although only a handful of newspapers have written policies on the use of unnamed sources, many editors insist on being told who the source is. Says Miami Herald Editor John McMullan: "Editors ought to run the newspapers, and that means insisting on credible sources known to them. It's part of the checks and balances of the newspaper." Adds New York Times Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "If a reporter...
...clubs on Prospect St., only five--Ivy, Tiger Inn, Cap and Gown, Cottage and Tower--remain "selective," still using Bicker to choose their new members; the other eight use a lottery system to determine club membership. And although Ivy, Tiger Inn and Cottage insist on retaining their all-male exclusiveness, the other clubs now accept women...