Word: insist
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Harvard officials insist that "legacies," the children of Harvard and Radcliffe alumni, only get preference in a tie between candidates of otherwise equal qualifications. Of course, most of us know at least one legacy and one rejected applicant who refute this contention. Statistically, legacies are more than three times more likely to be accepted than non-legacy applicants; according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67, 40 to 45 percent of legacy applicants are admitted compared to 10 to 15 percent of non-legacy applicants...
...during a demonstration protesting food shortages; of an attempt by the President's first cousin to assassinate him; of generals executed for plotting against Saddam. The rumors come not from diplomatic intelligence sources but from Iraqis, many of whom, despite the pervasive fear and security apparatus of the state, insist that opposition and dismay with Saddam Hussein run deep...
...natural foods, but do they really know what they're getting? Some answers can be found in the FDA's updated Food Defect Action Levels list, which indicates limits for "natural or unavoidable" substances in processed food. While people might blanch at eating insects and | their excreta, many entomologists insist that the only harm is psychological. Some even contend that the government should allow more bugs in food so that crops can be grown with fewer pesticides...
...military movements in the Moscow area. Yazov and Kryuchkov have said that many of the troops are helping to bring in the potato harvest, and Western correspondents wandering through potato fields outside Moscow have encountered soldiers who really were digging up spuds. The defense and KGB chiefs, however, also insist that some troops are preparing for the Nov. 7 Revolution Day parade, an assertion that Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Russian Republic, for one, finds hard to swallow...
...real estate developers with whom the S&L had cozy and possibly illegal dealings. Citing Bush's M.B.A. from Tulane University, Denver insiders contend that he had to be aware of his own vulnerability to the go-go bankers and developers with whom he dealt. More significantly, they insist that Bush did not fall innocently into the clutches of the shrewd operators. Bush, they say, was as enthusiastic as Denver's highflyers in arranging their financing of his upstart JNB oil company, which he had the bad timing to start just after the petroboom had peaked...