Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season for Harvard, and the Crimson could not overtake Dartmouth for second place in the Red Rolfe Division (Harvard was two games back going into the weekend). But as this disappointing season draws closer and closer to an overall close (the team has only three games left), the players insist that they have not allowed the letdowns to affect their performances...
Many who know the Nichols brothers, who grew up not far away in Lapeer, insist that they cannot be connected with the bombing. "I just can't believe they could have done something like this,'' says Mike Innes, 35, a dairy farmer who buys feed from Nichols and lives only a few miles away. Innes and others described James Nichols as a good, hardworking organic farmer in a ragged rural area where the work has got increasingly tough and the small crop and dairy farms are being gobbled up by larger owners. "Jim Nichols works as hard as anyone...
...very young children, the healing may be much quicker. In kids under 18 months old, some specialists contend, the central nervous system is still too undeveloped for memories to become firmly established. But other experts insist that memories are stored and may resurface when children are old enough to verbalize their trauma. In any case, says Dr. Blom, "we can only give them a stable, warm environment and hope that the nervous system by its immaturity will allow them some relief...
...threatened to slap billions of dollars' worth of tariffs on Japanese autos and auto parts unless Tokyo lifted its trade barriers against American cars and trucks. "This is a No. 1 priority," U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor told Time. "We know what we want, and we are going to insist upon...
...INTERESTED IN BURUMA'S commentary on the cult followings that have developed in postwar Japan and elsewhere. All religions, however, have at their core a tenet that insists the individual is secondary to a superior force. So long as we allow others to do our thinking for us, we will continue to be led by those who insist they know best...