Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Guard Base in Maine, will continue operating, but on a part-time basis. "I think it's better than nothing," says Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, who lobbied to keep the Bangor radar working. But he expects it to provide only a minimal safeguard. U.S. military officials insist, however, that the country will not be caught with its guard down. The Pentagon plans to rely more on its vast network of sensors and intelligence operations to protect North America against the possibility of a Soviet air attack...
...editorial chair of The Crimson, I refused to publish it. A reporter from The Chicago Tribune called and asked me why. I told her that it was not because I disagreed with Bush (though I did), but because an editor should mininally insist that his writers not plagiarize...
...other side, Smith has adamantly protested that he is a man falsely accused. His friends and family testify to his gentle nature and moral fiber and insist that he could not possibly have committed such a crime. Maybe the truth will come out in court -- but regardless of its finale, the case has shoved the debate over date rape into the minds of average men and women. Plant the topic in a conversation, and chances are it will ripen into a bitter argument or a jittery sequence of pale jokes...
...other side, the heads of civil rights organizations -- and most African Americans -- insist that racial discrimination is so entrenched at all levels of U.S. society that only affirmative action can overcome it. They charge that Steele and other critics greatly understate white resistance to black progress. To support their view, they note that self-reliance has long been a part of the black gospel for advancement. "There's nothing new in the statement that we can and should do more for ourselves," says John Jacob, president of the National Urban League. "It's not a debatable issue." But, say supporters...
...capital of the universe is, in a word, broke. Within days there may be no money to pay its 243,000 employees, and on the horizon there is only more red ink and pain. In 1975 the city pulled itself up from a similar fate, but this time, officials insist, the situation is even worse. The recession -- added to the high costs of dealing with the rise in drugs and crime, homelessness and the AIDS epidemic -- has aggravated already overwhelming urban problems...