Word: insists
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Pentagon officials deny that the military is exploiting blacks and insist that the disproportionate numbers are the random result of America's decision in 1973 to replace the draft with an all-volunteer force. They also point to the example of Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, whose rise to the top ranks of the U.S. military stands as a striking illustration of the career opportunities that have long attracted African Americans into the armed forces. Nor is Powell alone at the top: 26 of the Army's 407 generals are black...
...stronger than you, said Mikhail Gorbachev. Therefore you will do what I say. You can, if you insist, pursue your secessionist ambitions, but only according to rules and a timetable that suit those of us who don't want to see you ever achieve your goal. Otherwise I will use force...
...resolution equating zionism with racism. Finally and most important, Bush must recognize that a Palestinian state filled with people like the blood-thirsty demonstrators in Lebanon and Jordan could hardly promote American interests. He must continue to resist linkage between the Gulf War and the Palestinian question and must insist that no international conference take place without serious assurances for broad-ranging, all-inclusive Arab-Israeli peace...
...Aziz ended, Baker remarked that the U.S. welcomed "any and all diplomatic efforts to solve this crisis peacefully," but he repeatedly singled out Perez de Cuellar's efforts to the exclusion of the others. Washington found comfort in the notion that the U.N. chief presumably would be bound to insist on an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait, since that is the demand contained in the 12 resolutions adopted by the U.N. Security Council since the invasion last August. Perez de Cuellar did bring . Saddam something new to mull over: a formal proposal that once Iraqi troops left Kuwait, they would...
...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 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, sparking chips of concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name...