Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...characters, Tripp is the hardest to embrace, especially when she insists on painting herself as a victim. Anyone in her position, she contends, would have started taping after being asked to lie under oath, which is news to me. Most women I know, if confided in by a good friend about an affair, would keep it secret. And if the good friend asked me to lie under oath about it, I would say no and insist we drop the subject. I would not press a Record button for three months' worth of intimate confidences, all the while feigning friendship...
Kendall will almost certainly try in his negotiations with Starr to circumscribe the questions: he might insist, for example, on an arrangement under which Clinton would be required to answer questions about only the period in which Lewinsky worked at the White House, thereby avoiding any discussion of the period in which a cover-up might have occurred. But it is difficult to imagine how Starr, who has subpoenaed Lewinsky's bookstore receipts, would accept such limits. And it is hard to imagine that Kendall would agree to allow Clinton to testify without them...
...elderly population puts even greater pressure on the nation's nursing homes. Senator Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who chairs the Committee on Aging, argues that much of the blame for the flawed nursing-home system can be pinned on the Federal Government, which has the economic leverage to insist on improvements. Last year the Federal Government spent $28 billion on nursing-home care through Medicare and Medicaid. "It's been too permissive and too forgiving in its enforcement," Grassley told TIME...
...married at the perilously young age of 17 last month and only now have released (free of charge!) their photos, didn't play that game. Cynics may remark that it's only because this is just the first wedding for each. Romantics, which these two seem to be, might insist that they are young, in love and nothing else matters. Take a look at the picture: two out of three...
...cash, admit that they may have to pull the plug (this time deliberately) on the station as early as this year. "If we don't get the funding soon," says one of Mir's handlers, "who knows when and how we'll have to bring the station down?" Officials insist that there is no cause for alarm. "We can manage the initial descent," says space-agency spokesman ANATOLY TKACHYOV, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending orbits. If its interlocking modules successfully separate, the station will then tumble piece by piece to earth; Moscow hopes that whatever...