Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cross volunteers, however, insist that theaverage waiting time has actually been decreasingin recent years...
...knew Salah Shaaker. When he was a boy, he used to come to my home in the Gaza Strip; his older brothers were in the nucleus of the movement. But I myself did not choose the bombers. This was the work of our military branch. Some of the youths insist they want to lead a suicide operation--perhaps because they are influenced by the teachings of Islamic Jihad. My orders are to persuade them not to go--to test them. If they still insist, they are chosen. TIME: How can you justify the killing of civilians, like the Hamas bombing...
...government. Israel would seek to inflate its borders to include many of the settlements and would probably offer the Palestinians full statehood in the remnants. Sa'eb Erakat, Arafat's minister of local government, says the Palestinians are ready to move straight to a final resolution. The P.L.O. will insist on nothing less than the Gaza Strip and the entire West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which it hopes to make the Palestinian capital...
...They hiss, bare their teeth and squirt a noxious black goop. The South African rainy season has brought an influx of so-called Parktown Prawns. Not really crustaceans, the brawny, pink, 10-cm- long king crickets are infesting the gardens of affluent suburbs in ever increasing numbers. Some residents insist they are pollution-induced mutants; others tell of ferocious guard dogs driven off by the bugs. One woman claimed her children were traumatized after encountering an insect in their bedroom, and demanded to sleep in the car. Experts say the insects are harmless--good news, since there is little likelihood...
...would seem to be a proper and magnanimous gesture, but conservationists are outraged by what they suspect is Somphong's long-term goal: to harvest and sell tiger penises and other body parts that bring high prices in Asia. Scientific evidence to the contrary, practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine insist that crushed tiger bones and tiger genitalia can cure everything from arthritis to impotence. By most estimates, only about 5,000 tigers are left in the wild, largely because of the price they bring poachers. Despite an international prohibition against the trade, a whole tiger can fetch more than...