Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, the plumber's Local 12 and the Master Plumbers Association of Greater Boston stand far apart in their rancorous negotiations. Paul J. Madden, business manager for the plumbers, blasted the association for being inconsiderate of workers' rights. "We insist we be allowed to have stewards on the job," he says. But according to the associate director of the Plumbers Association, the steward issue is "merely political"--the real issue is the management of fringe benefits. Meanwhile, Thomas A. Sullivan, the group's associate director, accuses the union of trying to "cloud our offers," adding "we're ready to settle...
...they claimed that they never intended to do anything in return. One of the defense lawyers, Richard Ben-Veniste, a former Watergate prosecutor, told the jurors: "Keep in mind the only thing that was ever done was to take the fat Arab's money." The defense lawyers insist that their clients were innocent dupes of Weinberg. They claim that he set up the meetings between their clients and the bogus Arabs, coached the defendants on what to say and assured them that they would never have to deliver on their promises. Declared Ben-Veniste: "This man is ABSCAM...
...field, how they grow." The simplicity and childlike persistence of the clown can have a special meaning for Christians. "The clown refuses to accept the limits of the possible," explains Tim Kehl, a professional clown and magician who is also a United Church of Christ minister. "A clown will insist on riding a bicycle whose wheels are out of kilter or trying to walk a slack tightrope. Sooner or later, he will succeed-to the great delight of the audience. The Resurrection of Jesus is the supreme example of God's refusal to accept the limits of the possible...
...community newspaper" focused chiefly on prosperous residents of the city and its nearby suburbs-the kind of readers who could help the News attract more department-store advertising. The problem for the News will be to attract those "upscale" readers while still appealing to the average straphanger. News editors insist that they can maintain the necessary split personality. For example, they believe that Tonight will not cut into the morning News circulation, since most of the anticipated evening readers will be suburbanites who do not buy the morning paper anyway...
...every four years, party members battle over their platforms as if they were writing another Constitution. They demand that certain planks be added, others withdrawn, and insist on nuances that would baffle the most finicky pedant. The fact is that platforms are greater than the sum of their planks. They indicate the direction in which a party is heading; at the least they exercise a subliminal influence on the nominee and, if he is elected, on his policies. Occasionally, vital issues are at stake. The refusal of the Republican Party to compromise with slavery in 1860 marked a turning point...