Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Times next may have to do it within a drastically changed company. One question is who will take over when Punch Sulzberger, 71, retires as CEO. Though his son is heir-apparent, there is speculation that other family members may challenge young Arthur for the title or at least insist that the jobs of ceo and publisher (combined under Punch) be separated. Meanwhile, the company--flush with cash after selling off several sports and leisure magazines--is shopping for a substantial acquisition or two in the next year. If the Times Co. were to purchase a major media company...
Although she will say she is "always late," a mortal sin in what the ever-politically correct campus politician terms Harvard's "culture of appointments," it is through no scheduling fault of her own. For though Lamelle may insist that everyone on campus "finds their niche and digs in deep," none, it seems, has reached the depth and breadth of immersion as the first-ever female Undergraduate Council president...
...presenting the new program, Jiang, 71, was careful to pay rhetorical obeisance to Mao Zedong and insist that the government would continue to "oppose bourgeois liberalization." He never uttered the politically incorrect word privatize, explaining that the new shareholding system is simply a modern form of "public ownership" that "can be used both under capitalism and under socialism." But few were fooled by the verbal acrobatics. "It's a deep change," says Wang Shan, a political commentator in Beijing. "The industrial worker who used to rely on the state will be thrown into the marketplace...
...small but vocal group of antinuclear activists, however, there's much more to worry about than upset feelings. Like all the deep-space probes that have gone before it, Cassini is powered by radioactive isotopes--in this case about 72 lbs. of plutonium 238. If the spacecraft were destroyed, insist these critics, some of the plutonium could be pulverized and wafted away by the wind. Even worse, Cassini is supposed to swing by Earth in 1999 for a gravity assist that would sling it out toward Saturn. If the probe comes too close, it could re-enter the atmosphere...
Meanwhile the U.S. was widely criticized for neglecting the area. "Albright was going everywhere else, except to the Middle East," notes Robert Pelletreau, the State Department's Assistant Secretary for the region during Clinton's first term. But she continued to insist she would go only when the chances for progress were high...