Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably looking to a technology company." Byron Wien, a managing director of Morgan Stanley, feels the technology group is in a long-term growth phase rather than the kind of boomlet experienced by energy and casino stocks in the late 1970s. Mutual-fund managers with big investments in technology insist the industry has grown so big and diverse that it's unlikely to go bust all at once. Such companies include those that offer services on the Internet (for example, America Online), semiconductors (Micron Technology), hardware (Motorola) and software (Microsoft...
...music and archaeological exhibitions commemorating the 3,000th anniversary of the city's original conquest by the ancient Israelites. The festival, which opened in September, admittedly has more to do with luring tourists than with unraveling ancient history. And it has heightened resentment among Palestinian Arabs, who insist that Jerusalem belongs to them and fear that the Israelis' passion for excavating everything in sight threatens Islamic holy sites in the city, around the country and in surrounding areas...
...region. And considering that artifacts from as far back as the late Stone Age have turned up in the Sinai , it is perplexing that no evidence of the Israelites' passage has been found. William Dever, a University of Arizona archaeologist, flatly calls Moses a mythical figure. Some scholars even insist the story was a political fabrication, invented to unite the disparate tribes living in Canaan through a falsified heroic past...
...doing, the Democrats have clearly put partisan interests before the good of the country. America desperately needs a balanced federal budget as soon as possible, yet the Democrats insist on playing political games that only delay the process...
While all of this success has been nice, both DuBois and Walsh insist that the best part about being on the team is the chemistry among all the players...