Word: insistent
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...last week may have been signs that reporters are beginning to flex their muscles after a relatively sedate primary season. But they also reflected an age-old controversy over who controls the flow of news. Politicians, particularly during campaigns, structure their schedules to communicate carefully chosen messages. Reporters rightly insist on making their own judgments about news rather than merely being conduits for what politicians want publicized...
Since more highways attract more cars, the newer urban theories insist on mass transit. Mexico City's 69-mile French-built subway system, started in 1969 and still expanding, is a marvel: clean, fast, comfortable and almost free (a ride costs less than 10). But it carries 4 million riders a day, and at rush hours the crush is so intense that the authorities gallantly (or chauvinistically) reserve certain cars for women only...
Supporters of the channel, however, insist that the dry plains are as ecologically sound as the wetlands were, and there is some truth to their argument...
...interplay between these two opposing approaches to children becomes another central theme. For instance while George and Lila insist on referring to PS's mother as "Dear One." Vanessa tells PS to say "my mother." Some of the most important...and visually beautiful--scenes are shot in the wild and grassy cemetery where Sinden is buried Unwilling to explain the mystery and loss of death to the boy. Lila and George tell him Sinden is with the angels. Vanessa sets him straight...
...young fan said during the pre-race parade of Miss Toyota. Miss Yamaha and local disc jockey Charles Laquidera hamming it up. "Christ, I just wish they'd get on with it. Motocross fans image is almost as bad as that of the racers themselves Promoters insist it is as inaccurate...