Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Without a doubt," Bayh said, "you will beelecting a man who is an unquestioned leader [and]will insist that this great state will be as fineand as great...
Martin Marietta and Grumman officials insist that only a handful of top officials knew of the impending deal before the weekend. They hint that outside financial and legal advisers were the most likely culprits. The SEC probably will begin its probe by examining an options order for the right to buy 25,000 shares of Grumman stock before April 15 at $45 a share. The buyer paid 25 cents a share for the right, or $6,250. In the wake of the deal, the stock soared to nearly $55, meaning the value of the $6,250 stake had soared...
French prosecutors insist that nothing can derail the judicial process at this point. Yet they admit that a conviction could set off diplomatic reverberations -- and, perhaps, even a replay of the September 1986 bombing wave that left 12 dead and at least 250 injured in Paris...
...great theater and good politics, but it was also rather late. Even as the Clintons continued to insist that Whitewater wasn't really a story, that they wanted everything out on the table so they could prove their innocence, the White House was grinding to a halt so that aides could go out and find lawyers to help sort through their garbage and assemble all the documents that will float past the grand jury and inevitable congressional committees for months to come. A high-ranking Clinton official, distraught at seeing his name smeared, found himself reassuring his children that...
Despite the fact that most people simply tune-in to see what celebrities are wearing, film reviewers, across the country insist on dwelling on the actual nominations. They oresee, fore-know and foretell, offering more predictions than Jeanne Dixon and Uri Geller combined...