Word: insistences
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...clearly reminiscent, for instance, of Tipper Gore's campaign for warning labels on compact discs. Rather than admitting to censorship, they insist that increasing awareness of potential corrupters of children is the goal. The device is meant as a way to monitor viewing as more households are made up of working parents and television programming becomes more and more extensive...
...LEAVING ON ANOTHER risky mission to China last month, human-rights activist Harry Wu offered Sue Howell, the assistant who was accompanying him, some advice on how to survive a Chinese interrogation. "Play it like a game," he said. "They insist you give them something. You resist, then give a little. But you get in trouble if you give everything at once or if you refuse to cooperate." Wu must now follow his own counsel, since the Chinese arrested him on that trip. But his words might also be useful to the U.S., whose relations with China seem to worsen...
...pretend to be a native aristocrat. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1834, and partly raised in Russia, where his father, an engineer, was designing the St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad for Czar Nicholas I. Doubtless the Russian fixation on rank impressed him; in any case, he began to insist quite early in his life that he was no prosaic Yankee, but a Southern gentleman from Baltimore, Maryland. He enrolled at West Point, but was flunked in 1854 for his cluelessness about chemistry. "Had silicon been a gas," he would say later, "I would have been a major-general...
...compliance -- a suspend-comply-lift scenario keyed to the gradual implementation of the Bosnia peace plan. In the first phase, strategic materials would stay on the sanctions list, with the exception of an annual quota of allowed oil imports. The time frame for review remains under discussion, with Milosevic insisting on at least a year between compliance assessments. Whatever the interval, the Bildt concepts are said to insist that sanctions will be reimposed should Belgrade evade its commitments; a critical problem here is who decides whether and how Belgrade is in violation. Milosevic initially suggested that reimposition required a unanimous...
President Clinton threatened to unleash a barrage of vetoes if Republicans insist on slashing key domestic programs and fail to take more seriously his gentler,10-year plan to balance the budget. "I will continue to act, alone if necessary," he declared at a speech to delegates of Boys Nation, a high school good-government program in which he once took part. "There are a lot of things being done here which will violate and undermine our chances to achieve common ground." The President suggested the GOP was leaving him little choice but to veto fiscal 1996 appropriations bills...