Word: insists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officers with HUPD insist that one thing remains simple: the safety of the student body is the No. 1 priority...
...help his little brown brothers around the globe learn the superior ways of the West. Today, America has taken up the same burden under a new name, "universal human rights." But the world does not agree on a universal definition of human rights. And who are we to insist that China embrace our definition based upon our morality...
...since then, the Mayor's opponents have done far more than simply insist on an indefensible moral equivalence between a 60 percent decline in violent crime and the brutalization of a single man. In the aftermath of the Louima incident, the liberal camp has devised a more comprehensive "spin" on New York's renewal in general, one with far wider potential application. The liberals now attack New York's unprecedented success in fighting crime by arguing that crime prevention is for the white and wealthy. They frame the situation as follows: the police protect the privileged and beat the poor...
...Mayor's opponents then follow this reasoning further, taking crime prevention as a metonymy, a part for the whole. They insist that the Mayor's "law and order" stance simply reflects the sensibilities of his broader program for New York. Therefore, all his initiatives are tainted: quality of life improvements are for the rich, parks restoration is for the rich, tax reforms are for the rich, neighborhood renewal programs are for the rich. I'm just waiting for the Yankees' World Championship title to be dismissed as yet another perk...
Broadcast executives insist that their plight has been overplayed, that it's too early to tell which of the 38 shows debuting on the six networks this fall will be hits. Ad sales for this season, after all, are at record levels. And yet there's a sense among many in the industry that the networks are not facing up to the fact that times have changed for good. "They are operating in a way that is old-fashioned, outdated and self-destructive," says Peter Roth, president of Fox Entertainment Group. "The networks have to change the way they...