Word: insist
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Blame is being cast back and forth. Marty Hernandez says he does not understand why the school did not get Amber into impact counseling. San Pedro officials, meanwhile, insist that they are doing all they can, what with budget cuts not only at the school level but in county mental-health services as well. The one school psychologist for 3,100 pupils works "almost full time," according to principal Stephen Walters, but focuses on special-education students. San Pedro's impact counselors are simply dedicated teachers with a little extra training that consists of three to seven days of workshops...
Perhaps we make a mistake to insist that the monarchy should be majestic. That is only one way for the royals to be exemplary. Homer's gods on Olympus, after all, played out elaborate soap operas of venality, stupidity, cruelty and greed. The Windsors, bearing up well under their hereditary burden of chinlessness and a tendency to run to twits, managed nonetheless to turn the saga of the stunningly unbright Duke and Duchess of Windsor into one of the century's great love stories. Perhaps Charles and Diana, in their follies, are simply enlarging the dramatic franchise of the family...
...defined as the union 1) of two people 2) of the opposite sex. Gay-marriage advocates claim that restriction No. 2 is discriminatory, a product of mere habit or tradition or, worse, prejudice. But what about restriction No. 1? If it is blind tradition or rank prejudice to insist that those who marry be of the opposite sex, is it not blind tradition or rank prejudice to insist that those who marry be just...
...Saudis. The FBI also wants to transport forensic evidence to the U.S. for analysis and would like any suspects in the attack extradited for trial in the United States. "It is a continuing culture clash," says TIME's Dean Fischer. "The Saudis, like almost any other country would, insist on conducting the investigation themselves. They will be more forthcoming but in their own way and in their own time." While FBI Director Louis Freeh was in the kingdom last weekend attempting to sort out those issues, relations became more complicated at a higher level. Saudi Arabia1s defense minister, Prince Sultan...
Still, the FDA's action is bound to be controversial. While medical authorities consider that pregnancy begins when a fertilized egg implants itself in the uterus, most right-to-life advocates insist that life begins when the egg is fertilized, before implantation, and denounce any subsequent intervention. Trussell points out, however, that postcoital use can work at any of four stages in the female reproductive cycle. It can prevent ovulation, fertilization of the egg or transportation of the egg to the uterus; it can also make the uterine lining inhospitable to implantation. In any individual, he says, there...