Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...settle the suits for as much as $250 billion. But tobacco firms were encouraged to hang tough by a West Virginia ruling on Friday that struck down most of that state's suit. Tobacco also has lost some of its allure as growing numbers of socially-conscious investors insist that fund managers avoid the stocks. For those so inclined, the American Medical Association has just introduced its own financial guide -- a listing of 53 tobacco-free mutual funds. Yet despite the looming threat of massive legal settlements, shares in tobacco firms like Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds continue...
...settle the suits for as much as $250 billion. But tobacco firms were encouraged to hang tough by a West Virginia ruling on Friday that struck down most of that state's suit. Tobacco also has lost some of its allure as growing numbers of socially-conscious investors insist that fund managers avoid the stocks. For those so inclined, the American Medical Association has just introduced its own financial guide -- a listing of 53 tobacco-free mutual funds. Yet despite the looming threat of massive legal settlements, shares in tobacco firms like Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds continue...
...Muslim-led government wants to regain the city for its trade links that provide key access to central Europe and to return the refugees to their homes. But the long-term result of this will probably be closer to what has become a pattern in Bosnia: Muslims will insist on their right to return, which will lead to clashes with the Serbs. And Brcko will become yet another of Bosnia's troublespots...
Military authorities insist that they will do all they can to prevent such hazing in the future. "If they think that the leadership of the Marine Corps believes that beating on their fellow Marine makes for a better warrior, they'd better find themselves a new occupation," said an angry General Charles Krulak, commander of the 174,000-strong Marine Corps. The new Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, declared himself "disturbed and disgusted" by the hazing and was forced to devote much of his very first Pentagon press conference to the stabbing scandal...