Word: insists
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Despite the dogs' bloody reputation, owners such as Laue insist that purebred pit bulls have a "steady temperament and intense loyalty." Indeed, breeders believe that in time the animal will regain its gentler image of the 1930s, when a pit bull played Pete in the Our Gang films. Only 30 years ago, notes Ed Almeida, a dog trainer in El Monte, Calif., the Doberman was the most vicious of dogs. Now, he says, after years of careful breeding, Dobermans are "big boobs" compared with the pit bulls...
Some Administration officials continue to insist that "confessions" by Lonetree, Bracy and others justified "worst-case" assumptions about the espionage damage, even if the statements, since recanted, could not be corroborated. "There is sufficient detail in their statements to see a classic espionage pattern," says a senior White House aide who is closely monitoring the case...
...located elsewhere. The U.S. is now pushing for a "global zero" plan that would eliminate all such weapons. The Soviets have made conflicting noises about whether they might agree to this, but their official position is that they will not. Another stumbling block involves shorter-range missiles. The Soviets insist that 72 old Pershing 1A missiles in West Germany must be dismantled as part of a deal. While the missiles belong to the West Germans, their nuclear warheads belong to the U.S. American officials say eliminating these systems would cause a political uproar in Bonn and strain its ties with...
Like commercial creditors, the Paris Club governments insist that creditors who plead for rescheduling should receive at least a word of approval and an interim loan from the International Monetary Fund in Washington, an organization to which club members also belong. Then, to convince the club that they are truly unable to pay back outstanding loans, petitioners must do a virtual striptease, disclosing their most sensitive financial data. "One of the unwritten rules is that the confidentiality of a debtor country's economic and financial statistics is sacrosanct," Trichet explains...
...Virginia), declares the value of reason and persuades us that humane analysis, not blind faith, is the true measure of a decent society. We sentimentalize Jefferson and his colleagues if we suppose they were not elitists. His buildings, like other major expressions of design in the new Republic, insist that elites matter and are valuable. They imply that the democratic task is not to level but to create space for the exceptional while protecting general access to it with doctrines of equal rights...