Word: insist
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...maybe not. The Russians insist that the real figure is only a one- twentieth as large, and no one has been able to prove them wrong. Bad weather closed area airports for most of last week, while a persistent cloud cover prevented orbiting spy satellites from photographing the spill. But even if the Russian estimates are accurate, says William White, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy, "that...
They are two cookies from the same cutter. Both are Harvard alumni with politically valuable surnames who insist they fit within their traditional party ideologies, even though they do not. Both are also longtime statehouse denizens out of touch with the citizens of the commonwealth. Both have shown surprising political ineptitude. And neither deserves our endorsement for governor...
...Herrnstein side with those who believe IQ is real and reasonably measured by the available tests. Their truly inflammatory notions are in what follows. While they acknowledge that intelligence is shaped by both heredity and environment, they say heredity plays the larger role -- perhaps 60%, perhaps more -- and insist that it's almost impossible to nudge IQ upward by much after the earliest stage of life. Government attempts to do so, like the Head Start education program, have been a failure. Until we know what, if anything, works at raising intellect, say Murray and Herrnstein, let's stop trying...
...White House and Pentagon officials, who point out that FRAPH was not started until almost two years later. "We draw an important distinction between gathering information from nasty people and supporting or encouraging the nasty things they do," says an intelligence official. In line with that policy, intelligence sources insist Constant was paid only for information, and none of the money was intended to finance FRAPH. An analogy drawn repeatedly in Washington: at the height of the cold war, the CIA was paying many double agents employed by the Soviet KGB, but that hardly means the CIA was bankrolling...
This is not to say that Gray Sexton does not acknowledge the mental illness component (she even suggests that Anne was a misdiagnosed manic depressive), however she does insist on portraying her mother as active and not passive. Perhaps she does this in order to maintain her mother's artistic integrity. If Gray Sexton were to insist that her mother was a certifiable lunatic then what would she be saying about her poetry? Instead the author is quick to illustrate how gifted her mother was and how deliberate her work had become. The author tells the reader that ever since...