Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russians insist Mir is in good shape, but they cannot say the same for the workers at the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan. According to a report on Moscow TV, the workers' housing is deteriorating, crime is on the rise, and schools and hospitals are closing down. Under such conditions, observes James Oberg, an author and expert on the Russian space program, "skills get diluted, motivation disappears, attention wanders...
Administration aides have some intellectual arguments for maintaining a cold war stance toward Cuba. Washington officials insist that the U.S. embargo is not a significant cause of Cuba's economic desperation, which stems primarily from the loss of its Soviet lifeline and Castro's subsequent refusal to make free-market reforms. While the U.S. negotiates with other repressive communist regimes like Vietnam, North Korea and China, officials say these are cases where the U.S. has important strategic interests to safeguard: nuclear nonproliferation in the case of North Korea, a booming trade with China. In contrast, says an Administration official...
...revived the Grand Canyon Railway, which last year trundled 100,000 passengers to the rim from the main highway 65 miles away. A rail spur under development will connect with shuttle buses that now carry visitors along the rim. Eventually a hefty fee may be imposed on motorists who insist on bringing their cars into the park...
Despite indications that Haitian resistance would be negligible, Clinton's aides insist that the President still has not made up his mind about an invasion. Yet by rattling the saber so loudly last week, Clinton has left himself little alternative but to invade. If he does nothing, he risks looking even weaker and more indecisive than he already appears. And that is a scenario the Administration relishes even less than the prospect of military action...
...doctors attacking managed care insist that they are only trying to protect the quality of medicine. Says Dr. James Todd, executive vice president of the A.M.A.: "Do you really want your doctor to have to call an 800 number at an insurance company somewhere when you are sick and take orders from someone he doesn't know and who may know nothing about medicine?" Other fee- for-service doctors echo his concern. In Houston, Dr. Robert Maidenberg says that he and 36 other physicians were dropped by Aetna's network because they cared too much about their patients. "Nobody ever...