Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter guilty of unnecessary roughness in dealing with Jerusalem? Administration spokesmen insist that the sharp Israeli reaction to the U.S.-Soviet statement did not mean the U.S. miscalculated in its strategy to stimulate a solution. Instead, they say, the problem lies in Israeli perceptions of diplomatic realities. Says one senior official: "They became hysterical. They read into that statement things that were never there." "It's the Holocaust mentality," said a White House aide. "If we're not behind them 300%, they think we're against them...
...Belligerency Used to emphasize that ceasing the state of war is not the same as "true peace." The Arabs insist that ending belligerency is the most they can exchange for an Israeli withdrawal to "secure and recognized borders" and that full normalization of relations will take time. The Israelis fear it may be a tactic by which they merely pause in their drive to destroy Israel...
...will insist on a thorough examination of how the 1975 agreement worked, including a review of the American performance. Specifically, Goldberg will try to persuade Soviet-bloc countries to make family reunions across East-West borders easier by eliminating exorbitant visa fees and reprisals against would-be emigrants-like dismissal from their jobs. He will also propose multiple-entry visas for businessmen trading with Communist countries and elimination of red tape that currently restricts journalists' entry into the Eastern bloc...
Delegates of smaller states will undoubtedly insist that Belgrade '77 take up particular causes dear to their hearts. Switzerland, for example, pressed the case for disarmament; Yugoslavia is expected to complain about the plight of a Slovene minority in Austria; Portugal raised the problem of its migrant "guest workers" in industrialized northern Europe. "Indeed, there are many more issues involved here than human rights, and many more countries present than the two superpowers," the lone delegate from the tiny duchy of Luxembourg remarked proudly. "Here there are a lot more of us than of them...
...amicus brief, the Antioch School of Law states "race, like other factors cited by the court as pertinent in interpreting test scores--socio-economic background, educational opportunities, etc.--is a factor bearing directly on the interpretation of test scores, grades and other evidence. To insist that the admission process must rely exclusively on racially neutral criteria and must exclude consideration of race in the interpretation of data is in fact to require discrimination on account of race...