Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to take the debt unless we get something in exchange" Blumberg said, adding that if "we're going to have to take a loss the first year" HSA might insist on some kind of compensation from the University...
Some executives insist that entertaining can be a hard day's night. The president of an Osaka chemical company complains that he is forced to "go completely dry" on weekends. "Otherwise my health would be endangered...
...Gerald Ford on Aug. 1, 1974, advised Ford that he would have the power to pardon Nixon for any Watergate crimes after Nixon left office. Both men say this was cited as merely one of several options open to Ford and that Haig did not urge it. Both also insist that no deal was struck under which Nixon would resign only if he were assured of getting a pardon from Ford...
British officials insist that neither the hunger strike nor the terrorist actions of the I.R.A.'s Provisional wing are supported by a majority of Ulster's Catholic community. Initially, that judgment was probably correct, but Catholic political leaders are now troubled by a shift in attitude since the prisoners began their fast. If even one of the hunger strikers dies, warned Seamus Mallon, the moderate deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, there will be a new outbreak of violence. "It will make martyrs of those men," he said...
...each other, a privilege not granted other protesting prisoners. Their relatives are also allowed a weekly visit, again an improvement over arrangements for the "blanket-men." But none of the fasting prisoners have touched the food that is routinely prepared and offered, and their spokesmen continue to insist that their demands are nonnegotiable...