Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...each other awkwardly and about half the hands went up. I then asked those who had raised their hands how many would be prepared to tell their dormmates of their preference. A small number of hands were raised. In the language of the day, it is "politically incorrect" to insist on marrying a co-religionist. It is, however, perfectly correct to do so if it just happens that way. However, it will "just happen" that way with ever decreasing frequency...
...agents in Atlanta were under tremendous pressure from headquarters to make progress in solving the Olympic Park bombing. So they came up with a scheme to trick Jewell into being interviewed by saying it was part of a training tape. Freeh was monitoring the investigation closely and called to insist that the agents inform Jewell of his Miranda rights. At that point Jewell smelled something funny, stopped talking and asked to see his lawyer. When the case against him collapsed, veterans blasted Freeh for botching their scheme to trick him into talking. Never mind that they were trying to trick...
Although bizarre name coincidences suggest a sense of humor in the FDO, the deans responsible insist that they play no games...
None of these proposed missions will come cheap. Even with NASA's new commitment to building smaller, less expensive spacecraft, interplanetary ships still cost at least $200 million each. Planetologists, however, insist that the potential discoveries could be well worth the money...
...doctors say they also want to take better care of patients. Prying more money out of HMOs for treatment is one way. Another is to insist that HMO contracts let doctors make all the decisions on treatment rather than allowing "M.B.A.s phoning from the back of their limos to cancel bone-marrow transplants for breast-cancer patients," as one medical researcher puts...