Word: insistent
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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C-(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...book is unlikely to convince Waldheim's detractors. While critics concede that Waldheim may not personally have committed war crimes, they maintain that he must have known about them as an interpreter with the rank of lieutenant and later as an intelligence officer. They insist that he then strove for four decades to conceal his knowledge. "It cannot suffice to describe Waldheim as a small wheel within wheels who saw nothing, heard nothing and knew nothing," says Hubertus Czernin, a Viennese journalist who has studied Waldheim's record. "He has to be seen in the context...
...Hanoi, and the Treasury Department enforces rules that hobble travelers and prevent tour operators from advertising. Members of the Vietnamese community in the U.S. may feel further discouraged from making a visit: supporters of Nguyen Cao Ky, former Vice President of South Viet Nam now in exile in California, insist that a trip to the homeland abets the enemy...
...people have been killed over the past five years. Many of the victims are young children, who do not need a license to drive ATVs because they are designed for off-road use. The ATV manufacturers, which include Honda and Kawasaki, agreed to the ban but continue to insist that the bikes are safe if ridden properly...
...Soviets insist, and most U.S. experts agree, that the technology both sides have in place is capable of adequately verifying compliance with the current arms-control treaties. But some troublesome shortcomings remain. For one thing, future agreements will have to deal with mobile weapons and sea- launched cruise missiles, both of which are particularly difficult to monitor. Figures supplied by the Kremlin in connection with last month's summit revealed 84 Soviet ground-launched cruise missiles that the U.S. did not know existed...