Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kuwait's elders do understand the problem. One exile group in Cairo has sent flyers to the 7,000 Kuwaiti families in the city, asking them to behave modestly and stop gathering conspicuously in public. Sober-minded Kuwaitis insist that their boogie-loving brethren, featured prominently in the Western media, make up only a tiny minority of their countrymen. "A lot of the criticism is bitter and not deserved just because there are a few crazy people," says Adeeb Essa, spokesman for the Association for Free Kuwait in London...
Some executives insist that the war is not a serious business concern for them since their major fear -- that hostilities would multiply the price of oil -- proved unfounded. "We've never felt that war was as important as the Fed or financial markets," says Jerry Jasinowski, president of the National Association of Manufacturers. But the attitudes of individual buyers determine the shape of America's consumer economy, and they still seem tied to the war's progress. Darryl Hartley-Leonard, president of Hyatt Hotels, figures that "if the war were to end in April, there would be such euphoria that...
This is exactly the kind of talk that makes whites insist on some kind of veto power under a new system. The existence of so many uneducated and unemployed blacks, says government negotiator Stoffel van der Merwe, "makes it more important to have a constitution in which the power of the majority is very definitely subject to checks and balances...
Already the Saddam government is daily escorting foreign journalists to bombed-out homes, schools and the like, scenes that are running almost nightly on American TV. The allies insist they are going out of their way to avoid civilian targets, and the record bears them out. Baghdad's own figures on civilian casualties, while hopelessly confusing, are remarkably low, given the length and intensity of the bombing. But there is no way to entirely avoid the killing of civilians, and Saddam seems to be trying to provoke more by putting military installations among them -- placing antiaircraft guns...
Brustein touches on a number of issues whose importance transcend his feud with one particular newspaper. According to Brustein, the insistence on playing a "numbers game" with minority representation obstructs the central purpose of a cultural organization, to provide quality artistic works. However, others insist that past prejudice has infused cultural establishments with an instinctive bias against non-Western works. This deficiency needs to be erased through an increased infusion of minorities, and number counting is an appropriate way of measuring the success of this program...