Word: insists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. In fact, the Federal Government has budgeted only about $330 million for AIDS research, including the 1986 allocation, and in four of the past five years Congress has increased Administration funding requests. AIDS researchers both in and out of Government insist that much more support is needed. "The funding is totally inadequate," says George Washington University Immunologist Allan Goldstein. "The nation has been put at risk with AIDS because of a lack of public leadership...
...York City club reopens in November, the employees will include male waiters, dubbed Rabbits. In an effort to lure female patrons, the ! company (fiscal 1985 sales: $192 million) hopes to hire "attractive and athletically built" men. Company officials refuse to say how the Rabbits will be dressed but insist that they will keep their pants on. Among the current applicants are an Ivy League student and a ventriloquist. At the same time, some of the club's Bunnies will don less revealing garb. About half will be outfitted in sequined gowns or dresses, while the others will continue to sport...
...their professors and students to teach and learn as they think best. Over the years, we have gradually persuaded outside groups, including corporations, not to try to use financial leverage to impose their views upon our campuses. We cannot expect these organizations to continue exercising such restraint if we insist on resorting to boycotts in an effort to impose our will on them. Once powerful groups in the society feel free to use economic sanctions to force their opinions on others, universities are bound to lose heavily in the process...
Last week's testimony came in the trial of an alleged cocaine dealer, Curtis Strong, a former clubhouse caterer for the Philadelphia Phillies. He was among seven Pennsylvania men indicted on drug-dealing charges last May by a federal grand jury, but the only one so far to insist on a trial (three others pleaded guilty, and no trial dates have been set for the remaining three). In return for promises of cooperation, prosecutors went out of their way to conceal the identity of the players who allegedly bought cocaine from the seven defendants. But Strong's trial destroyed that...
...first President to give importance to the role of press secretary. It has become an art form under Ronald Reagan. The press's constant worry about being misled accounts for most of those acrimonious spats between White House reporters and presidential press secretaries. Larry Speakes is the latest to insist self-righteously on a narrow definition of his probity: it was the White House, not Speakes himself, that put out the misleading report that no biopsy had been performed on the President's skin cancer. But, protested ^ Helen Thomas of U.P.I., "you were not candid." Speakes: "Do you want...