Word: insist
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...been sharply criticized both by Jewish leaders and church liberals for his refusal to publicly condemn the Nazis, a "silence" that some suggest may have cost untold Jewish lives. Pius' defenders reply heatedly that his efforts to hide Jews in Italy and elsewhere saved thousands. More important, they insist that silence was the best policy--and here Pius' story intersects Stein's. According to Gumpel, Pius was about to issue his own four-page protest against the Jews' deportation when he got word of the Nazis' response to the Dutch church's defiance. He burned his own statement. Challenging Hitler...
...seem to indicate a frame even more devoid of substance. When Flockhart missed a day of work recently, idle minds began speculating that it was because of an eating disorder. Reps for Flockhart and Fox, McBeal's network, call the story "bogus," and Flockhart went on L.A. radio to insist that she is robust and well fed. Viewers will have to stay tuned to see how the story fills...
...athletes, with an average annual salary of $2.6 million, want to retain the ability to earn unlimited pay as free agents. "There is no reason why we should be restricted in what we're making while the owners are cashing in," says Chicago Bulls guard Steve Kerr. The owners insist on a firm salary cap for each team, to reduce the share of revenue that goes to players. (Last year it was 57% of about $1.7 billion.) To that end, the owners have proposed phasing out the so-called Larry Bird exception, which lets each team break its salary...
...have to insist that sexuality is part of what makes us spiritual beings," Walker said...
Bennett's study proposes that the elimination of bias in journalism and the reestablishment of fairness and accuracy will result when journalists "insist upon evidence, and always give gay or lesbian spokespersons the opportunity to respond directly to [an] allegation...