Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Ford, at the urging of Secretary Kissinger, agreed to the 2000 turnover date but continued to insist on firm post-treaty rights for the U.S. to defend the canal and keep it in operation...
Federal investigators insist that all of this was under way before De Lorean entered the picture. By sheer coincidence, they say, the C.I. knew De Lorean. According to a confidential federal memo, De Lorean, not realizing that his friend might be talking to the Government, approached the C.I. in July. De Lorean said he needed money to save his car company from bankruptcy, and offered to help finance a drug-smuggling deal if it would net him at least $50 million. James Walsh, an assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of the task force, approved a plan to go along with...
...provision would also hamper medical research, which often creates such wastes as a by-product. While the wording actually exempts for biomedical research, scientists insist that this is a lark, because these researchers would have to set up their own disposal sites--a highly expensive, if not economically impossible proposition. Legislators are effectively handling this issue, and citizens should allow then a free hand to continue, and vote...
Whether she deserves to win that suit is a complicated question. Legally, may be year although orchestra officials insist "cause and circumstances beyond resemble control" endangered the concert, they did break her contest. Morally, however the answer is less clear, just as she feels a moral obligation to speak out for Palestinian rights, to choose who strongly disagree may feel a moral obligation to protest her views by refusing to cooperate with her artistically...
...supporters insist that the Government is not looking hard enough. A private investigator hired by the physicians in Puerto Rico reported that he found it easy to buy restricted veterinary drugs containing estrogen, including DES. "They say it's not for sale here," says Sáenz, "but there was plenty where he bought it." Indeed, Veterinarian Jose Diez of the commonwealth department of agriculture confirms that "all the large pharmaceutical companies and distributors peddle their wares to the breeders, not only estrogen but also antibiotics." What is worse, says Diez, "our breeders have no idea...