Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French insist that it is also essential for Western officials to remain in Tehran to support Iranian moderates like Banisadr. The Italians feel that their diplomats in Iran are particularly useful because they supposedly have clout with Iranian radicals. Italy's President Alessandro Pertini supported persecuted Iranian students during the Shah's reign...
...apply for their checks, Alaskans will have to fill out some 1.2 million forms. The cost of the applications and the manpower required to process them is estimated at nearly $2 million over the next twelve months. There is one other minor hitch: the U.S. Internal Revenue Service will insist that those tax rebates and oil fund dividends be reported as income-and thus Washington too will benefit from Alaska's governmental generosity...
...Soviets helped arm and finance Machel's guerrilla army. After independence, an estimated 1,600 Soviet, Cuban and East German technicians and advisers arrived to take up residence. But Mozambican officials insist that their country is not a Soviet satellite. Asked what Moscow would think of Machel's overtures to the West, a young government aide exploded: "What the hell does it matter what Moscow thinks? This is our business, not Moscow's." In fact, Mozambique's largest single source of economic aid ($33 million this year) is Sweden...
Bankers complain that soaring interest rates have put them in such a profit squeeze that they are looking for any way to economize. Because of administrative expense, accounts under $100 are generally money losers. Bank executives insist that they are not trying to drive away customers with only small change but to encourage people to save more regularly and to consolidate multiple passbooks...
...think it incumbent upon the Executive Committee on Afro-American Studies to reconsider its errant decision. I think it incumbent upon President Bok to insist that this decision be reconsidered. I also think the new chairman of the Afro-Am Department, my old friend Professor Nathan Huggins, should request the Executive Committee to reconsider its pernicious action. Would, incidentally, the Executive Committee members who opposed Professor Genovese prefer a conservative or right-wing historian with comparable scholarly credentials? Perhaps. But, speaking as a Black, let me say that given a choice between Professor Genovese and a conservative historian of same...