Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less bellicose. On domestic affairs he has changed his mind about the federal bailout of Chrysler and loan guarantees for New York City (he is now for both) and disavows any thought of asking for repeal of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act. Such moderation of views, aides insist, is consistent with his record as Governor of California from 1967 to 1974. In Sacramento he once went along with a tax change after proclaiming himself embedded "in concrete" against it. He sometimes brings that up voluntarily these days, and says, "Well, my feet aren't in concrete...
...Tradition," one undergraduate said as he watched the alumni parade across the green, "is what makes this place what it is." While the world has passed Dartmouth by, the people of this pristine, isolated world can still stomp their feet, insist they are "real," and pass the hip flask for another round...
...most part, Falwell and other leaders of the religious right insist that they do not tell their followers for whom to vote. But they leave no doubt which of the three born-again Christians running for President they prefer. Although Carter considers himself to be an evangelical, he is not deemed conservative enough by Falwell and his associates because he has failed to fight for such matters as a ban on abortion or legalizing prayer in schools. Says Randy Stewart, a Baptist minister in Lexington, Ky., and a member of Moral Majority: "I will talk about the issues...
...Carter camp immediately accepted. Anderson could only say that he was "disappointed" that the league chose to "appease Carter." Reagan, not keen about meeting the President head on so long as he is still the front runner, said no. He continued to insist that Anderson had to be included in all debates or that Carter had to take on the independent candidate alone, just as he had. Hearing that Reagan was ducking, Press Secretary Powell said: "We think their duplicity is obvious in the extreme." The prospect for any more presidential debates is dim indeed...
...been eons since anyone has made a movie like this one, in which white men and Indians endlessly and mindlessly bash away at one another. Scripts about the Indian wars probably do not have to deal with weighty matters like racism, as revisionist film historians insist. But the typical skulk-and-scalp epic today appears feeble even just as entertainment...