Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consumers, workers and politicians--especially in an election year--growth is a magic word. It means more--more goods, more jobs, more money. Among economists, though, the word can start a fight. Past a certain point, many insist, growth means more price increases, and then more still, until inflation snatches away all the goodies...
...country (its $47,000 median household income ranks 23rd of 435 districts) and strongly Republican (56% of voters in the Sixth backed George Bush in 1992). But centrist Democrats like Georgia Governor Zell Miller and Senator Sam Nunn have also run strongly in the Sixth, and Democrats insist that Gingrich's abrasive personality is turning off voters across the board. Says Steve Anthony, executive director of the Democratic Party of Georgia: "If we can show the voters that our candidate fits the profile they want but with a more positive demeanor, they will go with...
...president of Relax the Back, the nation's largest back-products chain (55 stores, $30 million in anticipated sales this year): "When I got into this business eight years ago, I expected most of our customers to be senior citizens. I was wrong. It is the baby boomers who insist on comfort and feeling good. And they are willing to spend money...
...there are a great many conspiracy theorists who insist that alongside the buried famous are buried secrets that, once disclosed, will change our view of history. If Taylor's Vice President and successor, Millard Fillmore, was found to have injected arsenic into one of the President's cherries, it would have provided the one memorable event in both careers. A "second-cherry theory" would have pointed to two or more assassins...
...insist on seeing Bubka's ambitions solely in terms of material gain is to ignore the depth of his attachment both to his sport and to Ukraine. In addition to his athletics club in Berlin, where he conducts much of his own training, he runs the Bubka sports club in Donetsk, which sponsors 35 coaches and more than 200 children. Each February he also puts together an invitational in Donetsk, in which vaulters from all over the world compete. "I had a dream to do this for our young people," he says. "With changes in my country, many coaches have...