Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council should focus attention on the safety and academic concerns of women on campus. We want to deal with competent advising, counseling and health care services, a demand that includes better and increased staffing. We want to retain our privacy in these areas; the council is right to insist on anonymous HIV testing, secure computer records and closed personal files. Finally, we want to see Harvard be socially responsible in its investments (get out of Nigeria!) and in its consumption (we hail Coke's return to soda machines...
...that the President, in his march to the right, has magically recovered his true self--the New Democrat boy Governor who first attracted attention all those years ago, now grown up and gone to gray but still true to his school. Reforming welfare and opposing same-sex marriage, they insist, are core Clinton beliefs, even though he's done precious little to advance the former and has never had much to say about the latter. "Morris has his eye on one thing above all else," a campaign strategist says. "Keep the President steady. Now that he's claimed the center...
...identifying most of these asteroids and plotting their orbits, astronomers insist, they could predict many years in advance if any were destined to strike Earth. Most of the large ones, they say, could be cataloged within a decade, given the necessary funding. But budgets are tight, congressional support is lacking, and NASA has opted to continue only its relatively modest $1 million annual support for three independent groups with telescopes specifically dedicated to NEO hunting. These teams are headed by Tom Gehrels at the University of Arizona, Helin at J.P.L. and Shoemaker at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona...
...agents, Freemen and outside negotiators. Agents and U.S. Attorney Sherry Matteucci said the order was a reaction to violation of unwritten media "ground rules" by Fox Television. A Fox TV crew approached two members of the Freemen Tuesday, apparently to secure a written invitation for an interview. Agents insist that the order is not an indication of impending action by the government. Coupled with preparations made last week to enable agents to cut power inside the compound, the order raises questions about whether the FBI is planning a raid. "If the FBI was about to begin an operation, they...
...believed the Israeli army: a few shells had just overshot. I was there only 10 minutes when I knew I was in deep trouble. This was not a simple overshoot." Nevertheless, the Israelis, who have contradicted themselves several times in an effort to explain how the atrocity occurred, insist that the report is grossly unfair. They say the attack was not deliberate and attribute the shelling of the U.N. compound to a combination of map-reading error and differing muzzle velocities. But with each effort to backtrack, Israel only seems to dig itself deeper into Qana's moral crater...