Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counter capsules has been a fast-growing, profitable business (1985 sales: $1.5 billion), but the market is suddenly shrinking. Within the past five months, both Bristol-Meyers and Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, have stopped selling any of their nonprescription drugs in capsule form. While most other manufacturers insist that they have no current intention of walking away from this market, consumers and producers across the U.S. are pondering the uncertain fate of the still popular product...
...swelling, are common. Permanent brain damage, according to one study, occurs only once in about every 300,000 inoculations, death even less frequently. Researchers suspect that these severe complications--which can include convulsions, shock, loss of muscle control and fever--are caused by bacterial toxins. Still, most doctors insist that the shots are worth the risks. Martin Smith, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, calculates that the chances of suffering serious damage from whooping cough are ten times greater than having damaging side effects from the vaccine. Says Dr. Peter Patriarca of the CDC's immunization division: "There...
...international ostracism and punitive measures on the one hand and our right to defend ourselves against terrorism, then we have no choice. If the U.S., Europe or the rest of the world feels this country ought to be punished for protecting its citizens, a right that you as Americans insist upon, then we say, and not in a challenging way, but with sadness and reluctance, "Go ahead. Just go ahead. We have no choice...
While 350th organizers insist they have no reason to believe that Reagan objected to the degree decision, the circumstances surrounding the President's rejection of Harvard's invitation suggest otherwise...
...350th, for all its hoopla, will not match the grandeur and extravagance of the 300th, organizers insist. "We won't blow our trumpet quite as hard," says Burr...