Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign may be having an impact. After placing ads in the magazine since its inception, Noxell (Cover Girl Cosmetics) and Schering-Plough (Maybelline) have suspended advertising. The companies, though, insist that they are not responding to pressure from the Moral Majority...
...time for drug-treatment centers can be as long as ten months. Those alcoholics and drug users who successfully break their addiction all too often find that staying clean is impossible in an environment of despair. Without adequate housing and a chance for steady work, advocates for the homeless insist, the cycle of addiction and dependence will not be broken. "If I had my own way," says Cynthia Reynolds-Cain, who runs Detroit Health Care for the Homeless, "I would like to see those who want to be employed given the skills to make an honest living...
...Some patients sip whiskey with their visitors. "It's like a five-star hotel," says an elderly patient. More, perhaps, it is a throwback to the early days of the century, when care from birth to death was normally delivered at home. As Matron Duffield observes, "A hospital would insist on a strict diet for a dying diabetic patient. We serve chocolate cake." Saunders calls it creating an ambience of safety. "We make it possible to face the unsafety of death...
Victims of these practices counter that testing positive does not necessarily mean a person will develop AIDS. Nor does the presence of carriers, or even those who have come down with AIDS, endanger the workplace, critics insist, because medical evidence indicates that the virus cannot be transmitted by casual contact. Discrimination on the basis of the blood tests may actually harm public health, they warn. "If you fear you are going to lose your job and just about everything else in your life," says Katherine Franke of the New York City Human Rights Commission, "there is no incentive to take...
...trained as a welder and then put to work grinding out press releases. The same people who make a big issue of Michael Dukakis' veto of a law requiring people to recite the Pledge of Allegiance -- implying, though never saying, that this casts doubt on Dukakis' patriotism -- insist that it is somehow a cheap shot to ask what Dan Quayle's evasion of combat service in 1969 says about the boisterous hawkish values he professes to hold today. It's not hard to imagine what Republican hatchet men like Bush Campaign Manager Lee Atwater would do with this issue...