Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entrenched on this matter that Bob Dole did not even bother to seriously broach the character issue during the recent campaign. Polls have shown that people simply do not care about Whitewater, Travelgate or the misuse of FBI files. Most voters acknowledge Clinton's questionable ethical judgement but insist that his private peccadillos have no bearing on his ability to act as chief executive. Recent events prove otherwise...
Suddenly, your other courses will fade in importance. You will skip some for weeks at a time. Those professors and TFs who allow seniors writing theses to skip or postpone mid-terms and papers are greatly appreciated. Those who insist on interrupting your precious thesis-writing time do not understand the extent of their cruelty...
Developers, city officials and Defense Fund members alike insist they're striving to reach a balance of interests in Harvard Square...
...with the Federal Government to meet fair-labor standards, Gore made time for private chats with two significant Democratic Party supporters: supermarket mogul Ronald Burkle and real estate investor Stanley Hirsh. "It's breathtaking how fast and aggressively he's moving," says a Democratic stalwart. Though Gore's aides insist he wasn't asking for donations on this visit, they admit he was laying the basis for a squeeze this year or next...
...angry at the show of weakness -- for just one person. That is a lonely little boy named Isaiah, who lives in her apartment building. One day Smilla comes home from work and finds Isaiah dead, the victim of a fall from their building?s rooftop. An accident, the police insist. A murder, her intuition tells her. This suspicion is confirmed by the increasingly hostile behavior of the authorities as she begins to investigate the case. It will come as no surprise to devotees of the paranoid thriller?is there any other kind nowadays??that the victim is accidentally privy...