Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unfair to insist that there be a validation of competence," Finneran said. "[The MTA] is ever concerned with keeping the status...
While Clinton's plan was shot down for cutting into social security funds, the Republicans certainly cannot claim the high ground. After insisting that they would not exceed spending limits, the Republicans are now calling the 2000 census an "emergency" in order to make their excessive spending exempt from the caps. It is ironic that Republicans insist that there is almost $800 billion in surplus for a tax cut yet they cannot yet stay inside their self-imposed spending caps. In fact, both parties knew that the spending caps would eventually be exceeded, but neither one wanted...
...service is now in the hands of the professionals." To help Leakey with the colossal task ahead, Moi has created a kind of shadow ministry by appointing a small team of technocrats as permanent secretaries. As the latest episode in the two-man soap opera unfolds, Leakey and Moi insist their struggles are behind them. "I have little doubt that there will be a number of issues on which we will disagree," says Leakey. "Sometimes he will concede, and sometimes I will concede, but hopefully it will be a concession based on argument, not might." For the sake...
Those pressing the First Lady insist it is perfectly appropriate. "If she is going to be the next U.S. Senator from New York, people are going to be looking to her for leadership on a whole array of issues," says Dennis Rivera, head of the hospital-workers union and one of her most influential backers. And where she leads, should they expect her husband to follow? Why not? It was the Clintons themselves who once boasted, "Buy one, get one free...
...boosters insist the long-legged dwellings are a romantic reminder of how people and nature once harmoniously co-existed in Florida. "My son is studying to be a biologist because of the love for wildlife he nurtured out here," says J.R. Hinsley, a plant-nursery owner whose stilt house--a furnished, air-conditioned "hunt camp" he calls the Fontainebleau--sits above alligator nests deep in the Everglades, southwest of Boca Raton, accessible only by airboat. "People can call us swamp rats and rednecks all they want," says Hinsley's neighbor Don Kirk, 59, "but folks are supporting us because most...