Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials insist that Marxism-Leninism respects the separation of mosque and state. Religion, they say, must be given a chance to die a natural death; they will do nothing to hurry it along. Nonetheless, Khelyam Khudaiberdiyev, an official of Uzbekistan's radio and television station in Tashkent, insists that "only one in 100 of us is a practicing believer.* In a big family, there might be an old aunt who will still pray. My mother prays, for instance. She's 80." Salyk Zimanov, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, sums up the official view, with its overtones...
...annexing the West Bank. The most militant organization is Rabbi Meir Kahane's Kach (meaning "thus" in Hebrew), which the Brooklyn-born rabble-rouser established in Israel in 1974. Though only 30% of Kach's 400 members are Orthodox Jews, Kahane and his cohorts insist that the state of Israel should be governed according to biblical precepts. Kahane openly advocates violence to drive the Arabs out of the West Bank. One of his aims in creating the group, he has said, was to build a counterterrorist organization in opposition to Arab terrorist groups...
...ground that controls could still be needed in an inflationary emergency. Congress itself is all but hopelessly hung up in a battle about how much to increase military spending, and how far to cut social services, in the budget for fiscal 1981, which starts Oct. 1. Congress and Carter insist that inflation must be fought by producing a budget that would be balanced if there were only a mild recession-even though the deep recession now under way is just about certain to bring another large deficit...
...weak campaigner by some Reaganites, and Baker is vigorously opposed by fervent conservatives displeased by his votes to provide federal financing for poor women's abortions and his support of the Panama Canal treaties. Other possibilities include a host of Republican Governors and Senators and, some Reagan staffers insist, former President Gerald Ford-though that seems a very long shot indeed...
...response to all criticisms has been mixed. Although they began allowing high school students to see their test results--in an attempt to persuade state legislatures against passing "Truth in Testing" laws patterned after New York's recently enacted law--ETS officials insist that the tests remain a valid indicator of ability and aptitude...