Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...management teams in charge of each of GM's brands are being granted almost unheard-of powers of autonomy and responsibility, making marketing and budget choices that are unprecedented within GM. These zealots insist that only by focusing relentlessly on customer needs (as opposed to production requirements, say) can GM avoid the mistakes of the past...
...uncertain. The Republicans who control Congress will not buy Kennedy's bill, and Clinton's panel will not report for almost a year. But HMOs are coming under attack from so many directions that they can no longer shrug it off. They respond by citing membership-satisfaction polls and insist that those who complain "are being frightened by inflammatory language" about rare occurrences, in the words of Susan Pisano, spokeswoman for the American Association of Health Plans...
...Stories like ours have happy endings," insist the characters from Chess, and while this musical is certainly not a happy story, the AAA Players delivered an enthusiastic audience a happy conclusion to their Chess performances last Saturday...
...Americans: What kind of experts are you to think about deserting this unique space platform?" According to NASA, cautious ones. Mir has undergone a worrisome stretch of technical foul-ups lately, ranging from an overheated living module to the explosion of an oxygen-generating canister. While the Russians insist everything is under control, NASA does not share their confidence: if the problems continue after Linenger's return to Earth in mid-May, the U.S. space agency says, it won't send up another American to work with the Russian crew. Unfounded hysteria, counters Blagov, who blames the agency's "over...
Emulating the worst aspects of the radical right, the editors (themselves having enrolled in a highly selective, and therefore exclusive college) insist that all must share their dreary, new-found egalitarianism...