Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This interim deal is to last no more than five years, and two years after it is in place, Israel and the Palestinians will begin negotiating the emotionally charged arrangements for what will come next. The Palestinians insist on having their own state, a result the Israelis are not eager to see, though their opposition is softening. Both sides want the emerging Palestinian entity to be tied closely to Jordan, perhaps in a confederation. The hottest issue is Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want as their capital: Israel is vehemently opposed...
Gore and many others insist that the vast majority of civil servants are competent and willing workers who are endlessly frustrated by the system. By ) making raises and promotions dependent almost entirely on seniority, the system rewards those who timidly follow the rules and gives no incentive to creativity. Managers have no way to reward outstanding work: a brilliant chemist, for example, who has reached the top of the pay scale in her classification can be given a further raise only if she is promoted to a supervisory position -- and that would take her away from her test tubes...
...Office in itself speaks volumes about the federal mind-set. But it is a fact that many Executive agencies are so obsessed with following the rules and staying within their budget that they never try to measure how well -- or if -- they serve the public. Gore and Clinton will insist that they commit themselves to specific performance standards and will suggest some -- for instance, that the Postal Service guarantee overnight delivery of all first- class local mail. Good idea -- but how to make sure such goals...
...open letter released last week, former Secretary of State George Shultz, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and nearly 100 other signers urged President Clinton to insist that nato make immediate air strikes against Serb planes and artillery and that the U.N. lift its arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims. Responding to yet another breakdown of the Geneva peace talks, Clinton warned the Serbs and Croats once again that the military strike option was "still very much alive." Earlier in the week, Clinton said that under the right conditions, he would send almost 30,000 troops to Bosnia to help...
Defense lawyers further insist that there is no evidence directly linking + some defendants, especially Abdel Rahman, to specific crimes. The Sheik's ferocious tirades against enemies of Islam, they say, cannot be equated with inciting followers to kill. Ron Kuby, lawyer for two defendants, poses a novel analogy: "Why wasn't the Pope taken into custody when he visited Denver? He is the spiritual leader of abortion-clinic bombers and doctor killers...