Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the drawbacks, nosering bearers insist that many concerns by non-wearers are simply overblown...
...Lifers insist they get no special treatment for their good works, no favoritism from the parole board. For many, a tangled struggle for survival landed them behind bars in the first place. Now they use what limited means they have to ease that struggle for someone else. "Society looks at us as someone who can't do anything -- we're not taxpayers or anything," says Maxwell Melvins, who ended up in jail after shooting an innocent bystander in an argument over drugs. "Well, this is my way to reach back...
...managers of state enterprises to obey their commands than Gorbachev can enforce his decrees. Yeltsin and his aides proclaim continued readiness to join Gorbachev in some kind of coalition government of "national trust" to guide the Union through the wrenching transition to a market economy. The Yeltsinites insist, however, that any coalition must drop Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov. So far, Gorbachev has shown no disposition to dump...
...skills and most mature or "serious" treatment of their subject matter. Works of the highest quality, or masterpieces, serve as yardsticks by which to measure all other works: the good, the bad or the mere passing fad. But feminists like art professor Whitney Chadwick of San Francisco State University insist that there simply is no "objective factor called quality that someone sophisticated and knowledgeable can immediately deduce...
...prosecutions could open the way to punishing women for many other kinds of behavior during pregnancy. What about drinking? Smoking? Taking prescription drugs? Or working too hard? "Are we going to be policing people's wine closets?" asks Stanford University law-school professor Deborah Rhode. Other legal scholars insist that such "slippery slope" arguments are exaggerated; laws commonly distinguish between reckless behavior and acceptable risk...