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Word: insists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America wants to remain technologically and economically competitive, SONG members insist, it must adopt the Asian (and, to a lesser degree, European) reverence for education...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Geeks Get Wild | 1/3/1990 | See Source »

...strikers, who insist that they are engaging only in peaceful protest, wear camouflaged combat uniforms to demonstrate their unity. Miners also housed busloads of sympathetic political figures, college students, reporters and photographers at a location called "Camp Solidarity...

Author: By Hans R. Agrawal, | Title: Struggling at Camp Solidarity | 1/3/1990 | See Source »

...should be eased by large newly formed national-unity coalitions such as New Forum in East Germany, Civic Forum in Czechoslovakia and the Union of Democratic Forces in Bulgaria. Still, it is possible that after 40 years of Marxism ordinary workers will view the profit motive with hostility and insist that the government owes them a living. If that is the case, increasing penury could push Eastern Europe back into its 19th century bad habits: ethnic hatreds, border feuds, military juntas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of People | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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