Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group has commissioned at least one new minivan-like vehicle, to be built probably by Mercedes, and a Chrysler car that will be marketed in Europe against Volkswagen's successful Golf. Both products are being designed with input from both Stuttgart and Auburn Hills. Marketers Holden and Zetsche insist that brand identities and marketing will remain separate. Yet inevitably, Mercedes engineering will make Chrysler cars more reliable, and Chrysler's flashy designs will make Mercedes less boring...
Frustrated flyers who insist that air travel is more costly, crowded and chaotic than ever won a powerful ally last week: the U.S. Justice Department. In an antitrust suit that stunned major U.S. carriers, Justice accused No. 2, American Airlines, of driving three small discount rivals out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Trustbusters said American flooded routes served by upstarts Vanguard, Sun Jet and Western Pacific with its own new flights and illegally slashed fares below the cost of providing the seats--a practice known as predatory pricing. American, which carries 77% of all passengers who fly nonstop from...
...without informing State, Lim assistant Nick Yen faxed the panel's draft conclusions to scientists in Beijing. Soon after, the rockets' reliability improved dramatically. State and Defense Department officials found out about the Loral fax, went ballistic and called in the Justice Department. Loral executives insist the fax was a clerical error, but federal and congressional investigators want answers: Did Loral VIPs deliberately choose not to know too much so China could get what it wanted...
...hard to sort out how much of the millions of dollars raised overseas is spent for weapons and how much for humanitarian aid. K.L.A. fund raisers in the U.S. insist that the money they contribute to Homeland Calling is used for medical supplies and food. But last year the Swiss government froze one Homeland Calling bank account because Salihu refused to promise its funds would not be used to buy arms...
...course, while we insist that this whole episode must be taken in stride, we do acknowledge that such episodes would be more palatable if we had more confidence in NATO's operation overall. There are critical flaws in our strategy--if we can be said to have...