Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jericho district, as defined by Jordanian law that was in effect before Israel's 1967 conquest, comprises 146 sq. mi. The Palestinians want the autonomous zone to contain much of that territory, including the wood-planked Allenby bridge, one of two border crossings into Jordan. The Israelis insist that the boundaries should be more circumscribed and that they should continue to control the bridge...
Some of the more intriguing objections: cigarette makers, targeted for a tax of around 75 cents a pack to help pay for the plan, have been howling "No fair." They insist that any "sin" taxes should fall on liquor as well as smokes. Some feminists, while enthusiastically pro-reform, gripe that Clinton's plan does not pay enough attention to women's special health problems. For example, they say, it would be too stingy in paying for mammograms...
...trivial. Clinton's plan is far more complex, largely because it aims at a more thorough overhaul of the whole system. For instance, it would even contain a mechanism enabling the government to determine how many general practitioners and how many specialists medical schools train. Though Clinton and Magaziner insist they rely on carrots far more than sticks, critics still maintain the plan is too regulatory. Though all the leading plans aim to set up large risk pools of insurers and insured, the Clinton scheme would make these "alliances" mandatory. And though all are supposed to hold down the zooming...
...back, but they delayed the project for years -- enough time, fortuitously, for the real estate crash to kill it last year. Because the developers still dream of building their high-rises around the turn of the century, they have acceded to the new vision for 42nd Street grudgingly, and insist that it is only a temporary recasting. But if Disney and other entertainment big boys become entrenched, if cash flows are positive, and if Americans fall in love with a reanimated 42nd Street, will New York permit dreary office hives to come in and spoil...
...Representative Nita Lowey said recently, "I'd tell my constituents, 'Send a letter. Say you were raped. Say it was incest. Say you have heart disease.' " Lowey admits such advice is "lousy public policy" (and claims she was being ironic when she offered it), but other pro-choice advocates insist that a woman's got to do what a woman's got to do. Appalled that anyone would "counsel fraud by saying women should lie," Hyde says he'll fight to tighten the "loose language...