Word: insist
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...policy didn't work, but we were right to try it. Says a senior Bush adviser: "We asked ourselves not whether Saddam was a wonderful human being but whether by sticks and carrots we could encourage him to take a more moderate course." The pro-Baghdad stance, the aides insist, "was a very limited exploration" strongly advocated by other Arab states and U.S. allies...
Most educators insist that learning by doing is the most effective method in understanding a subject or idea, which is the reason why Chem 10 students have lab exercises...
After a rash of negative media publicity over two recent stabbings, Cambridge Rindge and Latin students insist they've gotten...
Stir It Up, written to his wife during an eight-month separation, was typical Marley: seductive, soulful and coolly intemperate. The rhythm is easy but the lyrics insinuate, cajole, insist: sexual congress as hip sacrament. It was Marley's unbridled and unapologetic partaking of this and other devotions, in fact, that gave him a kind of enigmatic, outlaw cast. In Jamaica he was not only a star, he was a political hero, a status that was confirmed by a medal from the U.N. and by the Jamaican Order of Merit, which he received in 1981. But long before that, back...
Pichardo contends that his rituals are no different from hunting or commercial slaughtering of animals for meat. "You can buy Chicken McNuggets in Hialeah," says Jorge Duarte, an attorney for the Santeria church, "but you can't kill a chicken for religious reasons." Santeria spokesmen insist that unlike the gruesome rituals still routinely performed in Cuba, their sacrifices are humane and no animals are tortured. But opponents disagree. "Carcasses are polluting our rivers and rotting in the streets," says ! Marian Lentz of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida. Pichardo admits that some offbeat cults may be responsible for the animals...