Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ease deinstitutionalization for the mentally ill. What Bush didn't mention was that a bill had already been passed to do exactly that; the Mental Health Systems Act was signed into law by President Carter in 1980. Once of Reagan's first executive acts in early 1981 was to insist that it be eliminated from the budget. Bush has no right to call for more clinics for the mentally ill; were it not for his administration, they would exist today...
...campaign slogan is "Reeboks let U.B.U". (In case you didn't get it, they let you be you). The ads feature quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson exhorting, "Who so would be a man would be a nonconformist" or "Insist on yourself, never imitate...
...real question is whether China's economy -- or for that matter any other based on Marxist principles -- will ever be ready. Optimists in China insist that the pricing setback is temporary and point out that especially broad decontrols in the southern province of Guangdong enacted experimentally in November 1987 were eventually accepted. Others are not so sure. Su Shaozhi, China's most eminent ideologist, is convinced that Communist states, as currently constituted, are "societies of scarcity of supply and excess demand." The only way to cure that dilemma, he argues, is to permit political pluralism, giving workers a voice...
...billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets, and Iran is pressing claims to them before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in the Hague. The U.S. could offer to speed up those proceedings without making an outright dollars-for-hostages offer that would smack of ransom. Washington could also insist on release of the hostages as a precondition for normalizing diplomatic relations with Iran and easing its opposition to favorable treatment of Iran by bodies such as the International Monetary Fund...
That is the subject of intense debate. Sociologist Mayer surveyed children of mixed marriages between ages 16 and 46 and found that a mere 24% considered themselves Jewish. Others, however, insist that the situation is not so bleak. The Dukakis daughters, Andrea and Kara, are probably typical. Kitty says they "think of themselves as half Greek and half Jewish...