Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shirt craze has been a jackpot for vendors, who collect $13 to $15 a garment. Some sellers have continued peddling the shirts, claiming a teenager who wears a gun shirt isn't likely to attract attention to himself by also toting a gun. Other vendors insist it is only a fad but have halted the supply in response to parental concern. "But T shirts don't kill people," says manufacturer Ben S. Ali, who has stopped selling the shirts. "People kill people...
...only thing Harvard has to do with increasing Asian American academic and extracurricular achievement is the mere fact that Harvard is there, as the most prestigious educational institution in America. When it comes to Black and Hispanic under-representation, on the other hand, students insist that Harvard itself is somehow to blame...
Activists are planning a series of demonstrations, including protests at the homes of the Palestinian negotiators. "We will not let them sleep," says Jiddah. He and his supporters insist that they rule out the use of violence against fellow Palestinians -- but not against Israelis. The latest round of peace talks produced a particularly brutal series of stabbings and slashings of Israelis by Palestinians. "This is not a spontaneous thing," says Ali Abu Hilal, another opposition activist. "And I think the future will bring more violence." Israeli security experts fear that the rejectionists may embark on a new round of global...
Such complaints are short-sighted and spiteful. These women had a bad time with their fathers, so they want to monitor men everywhere. They don't fell at home in a certain culture, but instead of finding one they like betten, they invade the centers of that culture and insist that it change to accommodate them, because anything they don't like must be oppressing them. It's as if someone knowingly sat down at the French Table in one of the houses and complained he or she felt oppressed and excluded because he or she didn't speak French...
...must insist on the immediate approval of the concentration. We must make sure the committee votes in favor of the concentration when it meets at the end of October. One way to help is to complete the short survey that will be available at dinner in your dining hall this week...