Word: insisted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Abscam an operation in which the FBI'S actor-agents got carried away by openly offering bribes and urging their acceptance? Justice Department attorneys admit that a few leading questions by agents might turn up on the many tapes, but they insist that the entire procedure was too closely supervised to be seriously tainted. For one thing...
...only by Jerry Ford, insist top aides to the candidates actually in the race for the G.O.P. nomination. They maintain that the expressions of interest in a Ford candidacy are coming primarily from G.O.P. fence sitters who want an excuse not to back Ronald Reagan, George Bush or their rivals until someone looks like a winner. Says California Republican Chairman Truman Campbell: "Ford is a comfortable place of refuge...
...feminists are torn. Many are former antiwar activists and oppose a peacetime registration and draft of any sort; at the same time, they insist on equal rights and duties for women. Said Iris Mitgang, head of the National Women's Political Caucus: "I feel tested to the fullest as a feminist when asked whether women should serve. It would be inconsistent to say that my daughter should not register if my son must. And every step of my background leads me to oppose the draft." Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, argued: "If men fight...
...standards: during his freshman year in college. He had to go back to work on his compulsory figures, those painstaking loops and turns that judges squat to scrutinize like the Rosetta stone. He has never caught up with the class; school figures remain his weakest point. But naysayers who insist that the double lutzes and triple salchows are jumps that have to be grooved into muscle memory before a boy is old enough to shave have been proved wrong: a typical Tickner free-skating program contains just as many crowd-pleasing pyrotechnics as any on the skating scene...
...more forcefully. Several argue that the invasion of Afghanistan simply strengthened Moscow's control of a nation that was already a Soviet satellite-a deplorable act, certainly, but one that does not necessarily indicate aggressive designs on nations outside the Soviet orbit. Many European foreign policy experts also insist that the occupation of Afghanistan gives the West a golden opportunity to turn the Third World against the Soviets, but that this chance will be lost if Soviet-Western relations deteriorate into a new cold war. Says one Italian diplomat: "If there is a confrontation, the Third World would...