Word: insist
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...come to calling Clinton a socialist. Whatever people think of the President's tacking to accommodate the polls, a large majority are certain that Mrs. Clinton is an old-fashioned liberal. So recall what she said at a Democratic fund-raiser last spring (no matter that her aides insist she was speaking in jest). "Give Bill a second term, and I will be turned loose to do what we really want...
...other side of this equation. The education and skills they acquire here will give them access to jobs offering astronomical salaries and exceptional job security. Yet, they should not forget about the millions of underpaid Americans who often facilitate their success. Harvard students should not only insist that the University pay a living wage to all of its employees; when they leave the ivory tower, they should strive to become the kind of managers and employers who value the living standards of their employees more than remaining slavishly devoted to the bottom line...
With any luck, advisers to Russian President Boris Yeltsin stoically insist, the political paralysis that has gripped Russia since his re-election last July will be over by Christmas: Yeltsin will be back at work after a successful heart-bypass operation, and the country will resume its shamble toward what ordinary Russians wistfully call political "normality." Few believe this will happen, though. Most people, including presidential intimates and senior government officials, suspect that Yeltsin is seriously ill, will require much more than a bypass and may not survive. Last week his prospective surgeon, Renat Akchurin, revealed in press interviews that...
...Hedy Tan, 46, a psychotherapist who has volunteered to run a Rules support group in Chicago. "All I suggest is, don't question it, just do it," she says. "Some therapists will think the Rules are dishonest and manipulative," the book warns, but Tan and other Rules Girls insist that playing hard to get empowers them. "I am weeding out the losers real quick," says Kathy. Ellen Robey, 28, who works for a talk show in Nashville, Tennessee, and runs a Rules support group, says her attitude now is "I deserve the best, and you're lucky...
Most weight-loss experts insist that the reason diet and exercise don't work is that people don't stick with them. But because fen/phen and Redux can be dangerous if they're used too long, and they lose their effectiveness after a few months anyway, patients will eventually have to take up regular exercise and change their eating habits. Neither fen/phen nor Redux alone can "cure" obesity...