Word: insist
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...current teachers insist morale remains low."I love teaching Expos," says one teacher. "I hatebeing a member of the Expos faculty...
...delayed. Just as his unit was being shot at, the Rangers storming the building near the Olympic Hotel looking for Aidid were also being hit by murderous fire. (Aidid's supporters were actually meeting in a building next to the hotel. Aidid was not there, though senior U.S. officials insist the Rangers missed him by only two minutes.) Helicopter troops nonetheless captured the hotel and environs and bagged more than 19 Aidid supporters. But as they tried to lead the prisoners away, the streets erupted with gunfire. Somali fighters from all over Mogadishu ran to join the action...
...their strongest concerns % are at home. The army has been humiliated by its loss of status, the poor housing provided for its officers returning from service in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, and a general decline in its living standards. So it will demand improvements. And it will also insist on a freer hand in dealing with security threats along Russia's borders with the newly independent republics and within Russia itself. "The generals," says Michael Dewar, deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, "see nothing but instability inside Russia and on its periphery. They want...
Meanwhile, Harvard should either institute a competitive bidding process for reunion busing activities or justify publicly and concretely why it doesn't need one. Murphy should explain his lack of candor about his relationship with Cavalier. Murphy's superiors should insist that he relinquish his ties to Cavalier--or give up his involvement with Commencement busing. No police officer should have the right to treat himself or his friends like VIPs when there's a chance that he's doing so at the University's expense...
Cliffs Notes Inc., based in Lincoln, Nebraska, has weathered plenty of criticism that their synopses encourage academic slothfulness and impede original thinking. The Cliffs folks insist that their product is merely a supplement to the book, not a substitute. According to a spokesperson for the company, the booklets are designed in the hopes of "triggering thinking processes...