Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale's aides insist that the issues-the deficit, the arms race, "fairness" - favor their man and that he understands better than the President the complexities of running the Government. "Public opinion is going to force the Reagan camp out of the photo-opportunity, nondebate strategy," says Mondale Campaign Manager Robert Beckel. "If Reagan will stop ducking and running, I think you'll see that style is overtaken by substance and that the American people are pretty smart." Last week the two camps agreed to at least one Mondale-Reagan debate, and possibly more...
...sent over Soviet territory instead of a U.S. electronic-surveillance aircraft because U.S. officials believed that the Soviets would never shoot down a civilian aircraft. The U.S. plan, he suggests, was for the satellite and the shuttle to monitor Soviet responses to the airliner's intrusion. NASA officials insist that the shuttle was never close enough to receive aircraft radio transmissions from the 007 intrusion area and thus could not have had such a monitoring assignment...
Finally, to save herself, she relented and produced a mountain of detail that yielded barely a mound of substance. To what end? What were we looking for? What are we looking for when we ask politicians to so bare themselves publicly? If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life; the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show; and the very devious, expert...
...criticism, the young Turks are willing to take chances. Gingrich, who calls himself a "visionary conservative," wants a re-elected Reagan to launch a "dynamic, audacious first 100 days reminiscent of Roosevelt's first term." Their biggest gamble would be to ignore the pleas of the pragmatists, who insist that a tax hike is necessary to reduce the deficit. Supply-Side Apostles Kemp and Gingrich not only oppose a tax increase but would cut taxes even more. The reward, they insist, would be unprecedented economic growth. The deficit would diminish as increased revenues poured in, without the sacrifice...
Prosecutors insist that in the unraveling of high-level criminal conspiracies, it usually takes a scoundrel to catch one. Says H. Richard Uviller, a criminal-law professor at Columbia University and former Manhattan prosecutor: "You'd love to have witnesses who are all picked for their virtue and sterling characters, but it doesn't always happen that way. And so you take them where you find them." Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry made the same point to the De Lorean jury in the words of an old lawyers' axiom: "For a plot hatched in hell...