Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hospital officials insist that the misadministered dose was simply human error. They are seeking to have a $14,000 fine reduced or even dismissed. Lane, whose chances of developing cancer could increase more than 4% every year, is fearful about the future. "What if my health insurance gets canceled?" she asks. "What about ((my children's)) college? It looks like I'm not going to be here for them...
There are few things that anger N.R.A. leaders as much as their reputation for recklessly opposing even the most sensible gun limits. Their goal, they insist, has been to ensure that gun-control laws are drafted tightly enough so that legitimate weapons and ammunition are not affected. They say their no- retreat, no-surrender approach to most battles is just tactical. "You don't give up ground from the first day," says chief lobbyist Baker...
...controversy over the Kennedy highlights Washington's enthusiasm for enlisting the military in the escalating war against drugs, as well as concerns that the Administration is using a sledgehammer to swat at mosquitoes. But U.S. officials insist that the Kennedy's mission was only to plot patterns of suspicious air and ship traffic off Colombia. That information would help position a network of mobile land radars, supplied by the U.S. but eventually operated by Colombians. Then the Kennedy task force would leave...
...Mobile ground radar stations would be sent to Bolivia and Peru as well as Colombia. Governments in all three countries insist that only local forces, not Americans, would operate this equipment. In the same Andean nations, Special Operations Forces would increase their training of local antidrug teams in jungle combat, night operations, map reading and intelligence. The three countries are expected to get a contingent of 200 troopers and Green Berets to augment the small groups already in place. Bush last summer approved a National Security directive permitting such American trainers to accompany foreign teams on drug raids...
...titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List...