Word: insists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name is Mikhail, and I'm an alcoholic," says the next speaker. Sober only a short while, Mikhail, 41, stayed home from work on his last birthday out of fear that his co-workers would insist on celebrating the event with a bottle. "I don't want to talk about my drinking tonight. I just want to thank you for the chance to express myself honestly. Until I came here, I had never done that before...
...West Bank, followed by negotiations between those elected representatives and Israel. He wants to buy time by avoiding the question of whether Israeli withdrawal from -- and Arab sovereignty over -- the West Bank might someday be on the agenda of those negotiations. The Bush Administration will probably not insist that he bless the idea of territorial compromise in advance, but as his part of the bargain he had better not rule it out forever. That would probably be as much flexibility as the U.S. or the Arabs are likely to get out of this Israeli leader. But it might be enough...
Some proponents of reform go so far as to suggest that student athletes be paid, thereby ending what they see as the pretense of amateurism. Others insist that all athletic scholarships be scrapped. Senator Bill Bradley, a former college and pro-basketball star, has proposed federal legislation requiring that schools disclose their student athletes' graduation rates. It's a solid idea -- one the NCAA should have taken the lead in long...
Most telemarketing crooks insist on payment by credit card. Reason: the vouchers can be cashed in at banks before the buyers have second thoughts. Moreover, purloined credit-card numbers enable con artists to compound the crime -- for example, by charging victims several times for the products they purchase over the phone. By the time the consumers receive a bill, the thieves have disappeared, often without shipping any products...
Most of the Irish arriving in the U.S. have simply stayed on once their six- month tourist or work visas expired. They insist they are in America by stealth because there was no way for them to gain legal entry. The newcomers argue that the U.S. immigration act of 1965 discriminated against the Irish and other Europeans by giving preference to applicants who had family members legally in the U.S. Since Europeans had not been moving in large numbers to America for many years, they were all but locked out. The non-Europeans, mostly Asians and Latin Americans, used...