Word: insists
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Most party experts are resigned to a hectic convention, with a battle over the party platform as well as the nominee. Reagan's forces are likely to insist on strong planks on defense of the Panama Canal, against abortion and against detente. Should Ford win the nomination, he could find himself running on a Reagan platform. In such a situation, his advisers say he would simply ignore the platform...
...member, Bok is "the classic example of a man chosen to make up for his predecessors. If Bok retired today, the professor adds, Bok "would be remembered as the president who brought back the lawn to the Yard." While some are reluctant to juxtapose Pusey and Bok and instead insist on emphasizing their similarities, others quite bluntly concede their differences. Ackerman says the Pusey administration was like the Nixon White House: "You couldn't break in, there was no way of giving a contrary opinion." Bok, on the other hand, Ackerman says, "tries to get unbiased opinions" and "invites openness...
Whereas many schools for the deaf, especially in Europe, insist that their students learn to lip-read-theoretically, to make their handicap as unnoticeable as possible-Gallaudet favors a "total communications" approach. Signed English, or manual translation of the language, is used in classes as the teachers speak their lectures, while Ameslan, or American Sign Language, a grammatically different and faster sign language, is used by some teachers and is popular among the students out of class. Since many Gallaudet students enroll with vocabulary deficiencies, especially if they are deaf from birth, a preparatory year is added to the normal...
Their park, the brothers insist, is "no substitute baby sitter"-it was designed to amuse adults as much as children...
...even some of Carter's severest critics concede that he is probably as specific on most issues as any of his Democratic opponents. But they insist, too, that he should be held to a higher standard because he is the clear front runner and because he has promised "never to lie" to the voters...