Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C. (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's Consider C. a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material or hasn't, though creatively, or any of the folly. They simply make tedious reading "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights. "Now I ask you, I have...
...reporters, "You use grand juries for information gathering." Starr's staff, meanwhile, today sought to question several Park Police officers who investigated Foster's death.TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratansays the independent counsel is satisfying recent complaints from North Carolina's Senator Lauch Faircloth and other Republicans in Congress who insist there are significant discrepancies in the Park Police findings. Since the first Whitewater prosecutor, Robert Fiske, never finished his inventory of Foster's papers after the death, Ratan says, Starr "is probably trying to be thorough...
...There's always the risk that the agenda of the funder will dictate the results reached... I don't think that's a good reason to reject all corporate funding. But it is a reason to insist on a public record of all research," he said...
...John Paul approaches the twilight of his papacy, the question arises -- who will be the next Pope? For more than 450 years before Karol Wojtyla's elevation, the papacy was held by Italians. And when the present Polish experiment is over, some Vatican insiders insist that the Holy See will be returned to its traditional caretakers. "You can bet your last dollar that the next Pope will be one of ours," said one up-and-coming Roman prelate. "I don't know who it will be, but he'll be Italian...
Neither Russia nor the U.S. is so idiotic as to take any chance of reviving the cold war. In the midst of his blast during the CSCE meeting, Yeltsin took care to insist, "We are no longer enemies, but partners." But however one- sided his expression, there is a very real danger that what just a short time ago looked like a blossoming friendship will indeed degenerate into a mere cold peace...