Word: insistences
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Children are not always coerced. Sometimes they volunteer, or at least the generals insist that such is the case. In areas where most of today's fighting is waged -- Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East -- demography is destiny. Manpower is scarce, and nearly half the population is under 15. With the right encouragement, children can be ready, even eager, to take up arms...
High on the agenda of the new Shamir government will be a stepped-up effort to persuade the Bush Administration to break off its 18-month-old dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Israelis insist that an abortive Palestinian attack on Tel Aviv's beaches two weeks ago demonstrated that the P.L.O. has not given up terrorism. The raid was staged by a P.L.O. faction called the Palestine Liberation Front, but so far P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat has refused U.S. pleas to condemn the operation and to sever ties with Muhammad Abbas, the group's chieftain and ringleader...
...there are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mist will lift and reveal the right path." It is impossible to imagine Gorbachev uttering a sentence like that. He sees himself as a revolutionary shatterer of the status quo who would insist on pushing ahead through...
...roommates insist that, academic achievements aside, they are no different from any other rooming group. "Believe me," Cohen says, "We don't have the most intellectual conversations...
College officials insist that legacy status is only considered as a tie-breaker between identically qualified candidates, a claim that is suspect by itself. But even if it were true, Harvard's policy amounts to giving the benefit of the tie to the fortuitously born--the absolute antithesis of the "level playing field...