Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reggie Lewis. The Journal reported that those surrounding Lewis, including his family and team officials, ignored the possibility that cocaine contributed to his death in order to protect the team. A coroner reported that Lewis' heart failed because it was damaged by a common cold virus. While the Celtics insist today's story is false, Journal managing editor Paul Steiger maintains "this article was fair and accurate...
Both the six-pack and the scotch group insist to each other that they knew all along what the prize...
...maybe, but if Freedman and her colleagues are right about their space-telescope observations, it would seem that the universe hasn't caught on to this bit of common sense. The most straightforward interpretation of their data implies that the cosmos is 12 billion years old, max. But experts insist that the oldest stars in the Milky Way have been around for at least 14 billion years. "They could quite easily be several billion years older than that," says Yale's Pierre Demarque...
...week a skinny seventh-grade boy showed up in the cafeteria five minutes late. "When I told him that breakfast was over, he started to cry," Spraggs recalls. "We couldn't turn him away." At Goldblatt, 85% of the students qualify for free food. Kids being kids, many proudly insist they could do without. Spraggs knows otherwise. "[They] don't want to tell you that they're not getting enough to eat at home," she says. "But if they cut this program, I don't know what they are going...
...flaws in the proposal, children's advocates insist, are many and terrifying. By allocating money to the states in block grants, for instance, an unexpected economic downturn in one region could have catastrophic effects. "If the wheat crop is bad one year or Boeing lays off 5,000 people," says the Rev. Sam Muyskens, executive director of the Inter-Faith Ministries in Wichita, Kansas, "there will be more hungry children but no more money available to feed them." Muyskens' organization administered a recent survey that found that 1 in 22 children in Kansas should be classified as hungry. Republican lawmakers...