Word: insist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just a prank," says HBO Vice President David Pritchard. "But the fact is someone has interfered with authorized satellite transmissions." The incident has raised concerns that other satellite-borne communications, including sensitive data transmitted by business and the military, could be similarly disrupted. Representatives of the three broadcast networks insist that a hacker would have difficulty breaking into their programming. But any satellite signal could theoretically be disrupted, experts say. "Most satellites are built with some safety measures," explains Karl Savatiel, director of satellite communications for AT&T. "But all satellites, including military satellites, are vulnerable if a person knows...
...homes and damaging other buildings, including the French embassy and the Swiss Ambassador's residence. It seems highly coincidental, to say the least, that the bomb exploded only a few blocks from Libya's internal- security headquarters, reputedly a onetime haunt of the notorious terrorist Abu Nidal. U.S. officials insist, however, that the security facility was not a U.S. target...
...adds, "we have no problem with any group prepared to help the police within the confines of the law." Conservative black, colored and Indian businessmen and politicians, who have borne the brunt of the rage expressed by the young people leading the protest activities in the townships, insist that they need the vigilantes because the police fail to provide adequate protection. The possibility thus exists that while the government conveniently looks the other way, continued clashes between the groups could grow into something resembling a black-against-black civil...
...dining service employees need to be paid, even on Oxfam night. But there are many creative, yet simple, ways we could donate meals and money to Oxfam that would take this into account. Only the greedy and apathetic dining service hierarchy stubbornly refuses to even consider them. Instead, they insist that the Oxfam fast be a college-wide, one-night-only event...
...many of the key telephone conversations and cable traffic of its friends and foes alike. The U.S. intelligence community does not want to reveal which of these methods it used to listen in as Colonel Gaddafi sent orders from Tripoli to his far-flung terror network. But U.S. officials insist there is little doubt that a fortnight ago the U.S. intercepted communications that specifically link Gaddafi with the bombing of a West German disco that claimed the life of a U.S. serviceman and injured 230 people, including dozens of off-duty American soldiers...