Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people we must reject such obvious ideological attacks for the fallacies which they are. Such attacks are meant to put in place a series of discourses and practices by which and through which the dominant white American bourgeois class can legitimize its own power over the powerless. We must insist that we are not the CAUSE OF nor do we accept the RESPONSIBILITY FOR the poverty of the black underclass. The black underclass is the creation of WHITE CAPITALIST AMERICA. End of dialogue...
...testify before a Senate subcommittee investigating Vesco II, he would stand trial on at least some of the federal charges against him. Said Vesco to TIME last week: "The time for games has come to an end." Justice Department lawyers scoff at the offer. His real motive, they insist, is to trick the committee into giving him immunity from prosecution for whatever he says in the hearing room - and then talk about every charge against him, no matter how irrelevant to the committee's probe. He then more than likely could not be prosecuted. Says a Government lawyer...
America has a long tradition of mixing religion and politics, from abolition to Prohibition, and up through current at tempts by both Carter and Reagan to enlist religious support. Indeed, all the groups attacking Falwell insist that they support the right of his "Moral Majority" or Christian Voice to apply religious values in the arena of public action. Many of them have avidly supported such hot political causes as the fights against segregation and nuclear power. The problem, they say, lies in the methods used by the religious right, especially widespread lists of the supposed Christian positions, and attacks...
...socialize with women from Simmons and Wellesley, upholding a symbiotic relationship between the three schools that has existed as long as most House alumni can remember. Everyone talks about THE stat: 50 per cent of all Simmons women marry MIT men. Even if it is an exaggeration, and most insist it is, MIT frat members are prone to long-standing romances with the women from Brookline Avenue, and it is not at all unusual to hear nuptials discussed over milk and cookies...
...three, who insist they speak only for themselves, reserve their sharpest criticism for the Gang of Four, who controlled the Chinese Government until they were driven from power by current Premier Deng Xiao Ping in 1978. "We hate them. They made the country disunited," Jia says. Lynn, whose letters from her father in Beijing "always tell me things are getting better," also assails the Gang's repressive policies and deceptive practices...