Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seven years. For all the flammable rhetoric it generated, the move was only part of a much larger showdown over budget balancing that could ultimately unhinge Wall Street and rock the whole American economy. And what is this mortal-combat phase really about? The G.O.P. freshmen and their allies insist that the deficit must be balanced according to their timetable and not a minute more; the White House wants to take it slower...
...bitter disagreement over what specific areas will be allotted to each side. The peace plan the U.S. has been putting together suggests, for example, that the Bosnian government trade Gorazde, its sole, isolated enclave in the east, for control over all of the capital city of Sarajevo. The Bosnians insist they will never surrender Gorazde, and the Serbs, for their part, demand both Gorazde and a portion of the capital for their republic...
...years that D'Amato and his staff use crude and even threatening fund-raising tactics, drawing explicit links between contributions and pending legislation in a way that's prohibited by federal law. The charges, first leveled in a 1986 Wall Street Journal article, persist today. Two lobbyists, who insist on anonymity because they fear losing access to D'Amato, have told TIME that D'Amato staff members solicited contributions from them this year during conversations about pending legislation. "It's raw; it's distasteful," one of the lobbyists says. "Al's guys reach through the phone...
...Falvo, shot and killed a 14-year-old Latino boy in the Lincoln Heights section of Los Angeles. The police version is that the boy, Jose Antonio Gutierrez, pointed a TEC-9 pistol at Falvo as the officer arrived, responding to a report of teens with a shotgun. Witnesses insist Gutierrez had already thrown his gun over a fence when the police approached and was holding a flashlight. Falvo has been temporarily assigned to a desk...
Zimmer admits he does not know how many prisons feature those perks. But he takes the "one prison that has them is one prison too many" point of view. Advocates of prisoners rights, a beleaguered group these days, insist that few lock-up facilities offer much that could be mistaken for the good life. "All prisons are very unpleasant places,'' says Mike Mahoney, executive director of the John Howard Association, a Chicago-based prison watchdog group. They also argue that some of the cost-cutting expectations are based on a misunderstanding about who pays for some inmate comforts. According...