Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what brought him fame: the popular view of the male athlete. Tyson's skill made him champ. The glamour that fans saw in Tyson helped him think he was invincible, immune to rejection or conviction. And his belief in his machismo -- the male athlete's mandatory arrogance -- made him insist that, in the matter of rape, he was blameless...
Give up waitressing in the summer to meet tuition payments? Well, if they insist...
Judge McSpadden had Butler examined by psychiatrists and sex counselors. But members of Butler's family still insist that the defendant was "brainwashed" into volunteering. Last week they hired a lawyer in an attempt to block the surgery. Jesse Jackson, calling the proposal "sick," also visited the accused man in jail, amid reports that Butler himself may be wavering. Without a prisoner's agreement, a Texas appeals court is unlikely to approve a castration. Not so long as the law still holds that no sentence should be written into a prisoner's flesh...
...town tucked inside the Armenian-dominated enclave of Nagorno- Karabakh for burial in neighboring Azerbaijan. The total number of dead -- the Azerbaijanis claim 1,324 civilians were slaughtered, most of them women and children -- is unknown. But the facile explanation offered by the attacking Armenians, who insist that no innocents were deliberately killed, is hardly convincing...
...perceptions are shifting as Azerbaijanis assume the role of underdog and Armenians appear to be the predatory wolves. Videotapes circulated by the Azerbaijanis include images of disfigured civilians, some of them scalped, others shot through the head. Armenians claim the footage is fake. They insist that they left a corridor open for civilians to flee Khojaly but that Azerbaijani soldiers led a group of 200 civilians into harm's way. The use of surface-to-air missiles, sophisticated Grad rocket batteries and armor proves that both sides are now armed with state-of-the-art weapons that were bequeathed...