Word: insists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loss for another, that long-term improvements may require short-term sacrifices, that some changes are for the good, that it is their responsibility to keep local authorities in line. Only that sociological change will make possible the economic and political reforms that Gorbachev, Deng and other reformers insist are necessary. Thus far, no Communist regime has found a way out of this dilemma. Lenin once said, "Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." His political heirs are finding that it is a difficult task indeed...
...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...
...titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List...
...that there was no unity," says an official. "He ended the meeting by telling everyone he would make up his mind on his own." Shortly after that meeting, Bush signed a secret presidential finding authorizing the CIA to funnel $10 million into the opposition's political campaign. Their candidates insist that none of the money has reached them, but Noriega has capitalized on the U.S. interference to deflect the election's focus from himself...
...with commanders who are straggling in the trenches when their divisions are already on the attack. Said he: "Some have already gone so far as to say in effect that democracy and glasnost are very nearly a disaster. The fact that people . . . no longer want to remain silent and insist on making demands is viewed as taking perestroika too far. I for one, comrades, see this as a success of perestroika...