Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...approve one of the largest sales of U.S. military hardware and technology ever to the People's Liberation Army. The deal, which could be worth as much as $2 billion, involves gas turbine engines. The Chinese say they want to use them for jets, but some nuclear nonproliferation experts insist that Beijing has more sinister plans...
Tobacco companies insist that nicotine, which is contained in varying amounts in all cigarettes, does not create a habit so powerful that it impairs a person's ability to quit. But the overwhelming consensus in the scientific community is that nicotine is an addictive substance. A Surgeon General's report has concluded it is as addictive as heroin or cocaine...
...heavy smoker...I don't know how welived in the environment that we did," saysBrooks, who was Weld's roommate for seven years."He didn't get down on me for smoking, however hedid try to insist that I use ashtrays...
School officials insist that the racial data are just one small element in a comprehensive plan to help Cincinnati teachers deal with discipline problems. "It is a time-honored method of enforcing civil rights laws to keep statistics," says William Taylor, another attorney for the plaintiffs. "There is no reason to believe that the information will be misused." Brandt says "an administrator needs good info." He has a point. Even assuming that teachers are justified in sending twice as many blacks as whites to the assistant principal -- nationwide, black students are disciplined in disproportionate numbers -- what about the teacher...
...came to a war, the U.S. and South Korea both insist they would win in the end -- but at a prohibitive cost in casualties and damage. Economic sanctions are not very attractive either. The North says it will treat them as a declaration of war, but instead of retaliating with an all-out attack, it might quit the nonproliferation treaty or engage in small-scale military action, such as fire fights across the DMZ. Because the North is already poor and trades little, some experts doubt that an embargo would have much effect unless China cut off oil sales, which...