Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phantom adversaries in the air. Candidate Carter promised a federal takeover of welfare, and Candidate Abzug would hold him to it. "The city of New York has to organize and seek coalitions of the people, and mayors, and Governors and members of Congress and labor and the banks to insist that there is a national movement, and we in the city of New York need a billion dollars to take care of our streets, our teachers, our sanitation, our housing, our hospitals, our senior centers, our child-care centers...
...insist that they are more bored by Soap than worried about it. Says an NBC executive: "It's kids'porno: Laverne and Shirley, Three's Company-the end of a trend." CBS President Robert Wussler is rumbling about the possibility that Soap will refuel criticism of prime time programming just when the ruckus over violence is dying down. But the Cyclops eye is not blinking. Says one CBS programmer: "If it works, the whole industry will have a Soap in five months...
...many other countries, such a collection of polished brass, all of whom have close ties to the 18 generals still on active duty, would give rise to fears of a military putsch whenever things went badly. Israelis insist that this danger is nonexistent. For one thing, the army can scarcely be considered a threatening elite in a nation where almost every male-and many a female as well-has been a part of it. As Yigael Yadin once said when he was chief of staff, Israeli citizens are really soldiers on eleven months' leave. Israel, moreover, has carefully tried...
...National Park Service has taken steps to restrict automobiles from some park areas, and its Rangers have been cracking down on campers who insist on disturbing the parks' peace. To prevent further deterioration of the wilderness, some local park directors have banned snowmobiles, restricted boat traffic down certain rivers, begun issuing permits to hikers and climbers, and even closed trails for a year or two to give them a chance to recover...
...Fraud . .. deception ... playing with religious tradition." These harsh words, aimed at a new movement of Jewish-born Christians, spill forth from Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, normally one of Judaism's most temperate envoys to Christianity. His target: the so-called Messianic Jews, who insist that they can adopt a belief in Jesus as the Messiah and yet remain as Jewish as ever...