Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last hope, telling them I was a faggot," Thomas recalls. "It was their worst nightmare, and I was thrilled to give it to them. Because people need to be honest, and people who hate have no place in my life. I'm learning to be stronger about that, to insist on that. I don't accommodate people who hate anymore...
Instead, we identify ourselves with our group--BSA, BGLSA, Hillel, The Crimson--and define ourselves in opposition to other groups. So some members of the BSA insist that The Crimson send a Black reporter to cover its elections, arguing that white reporters necessarily lack the "sensitivity" and "understanding" to grasp minority issues. So The Crimson assumes that non journalists just don't understand how to run a newspaper...
...true member of the cafe cult will insist, decor alone does not create true coffee shop atmosphere. For that, you need people...
...crucial. The Japanese have already made it a national goal to develop the next generation of environmentally friendly machines and industrial processes -- seeing this as a way that developed countries can strengthen their position in the world economy. The developing nations, still saddled with old, inefficient production techniques, insist that they will never be able to curb pollution without preferential access to new processes and equipment. Some experts fear that both sides have unrealistic expectations of technology, as if it were a magic carpet that would allow primitive societies to skip the Industrial Revolution and go straight to the environmentally...
...disorders among Bulgarian children who live near chemical plants on the Danube River. Eastern Europe's governments, barely able to keep their economies moving, have little money to clean up pollution. In presummit negotiations the main role of what used to be called the second world was to insist that any funds for the developing nations be matched with set-asides for the "economies in transition...