Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign against HIV; at the same time, he operates nimbly through the budgetary and political pitfalls of the enterprise. And though he is monumentally tranquil in demeanor, he has been known to fling the occasional hot one-liner against naysayers--once, "It's the virus, stupid!" to those who insist HIV is not the cause of AIDS...
...that the conventions of language and sentiment that fit an earlier moment of AIDS, meaning all the years when death was at the end of every struggle, are unsuited to this one, when nothing is a foregone conclusion. Something powerful is happening. The new prospects for effective treatment insist that despair is an outmoded psychological reflex. Yet among people who live with AIDS, optimism is a suspicious character. Too many bright hopes of the past didn't pan out. So this is a moment in which, for anyone with feeling and judgment, feeling and judgment are unsettled...
...Kuwaitis and Saudis insist they are not, but authoritarian states are unlikely to encourage such disclosures from their citizens. Most of the complaints come from American and British veterans, joined in smaller numbers by Canadians, Czechs and Slovaks. Last week Britain appointed an independent panel to study claims from about 1,000 veterans that they are suffering from the syndrome. In Washington, U.S. veterans testified again last week about their health problems before a congressional subcommittee...
...execution has not ended those thoughts. Watchers in Washington insist they do not believe Saudi Arabia is ripe for a takeover by Islamist holy warriors. But some analysts fear the Saudi rulers might have only a few years to find ways to begin reforming their absolute monarchy...
...necessary and predictable that Clinton would insist he hadn't picked Albright because she is a woman, or because Hillary likes her, or because women's groups keep reminding him that they did much to get him re-elected. So it was left to her friends and admirers to revel in the idea of a Secretary of State who sorted out the future of Bosnia while cuddling a grandchild on her lap, who knits and cooks and wears red suits and goes antiquing with Barbra Streisand, who keeps a miniature broom in her office sent by a critic who called...