Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rash of rumors now suggests that Bronfman, if he buys MCA, would ask one of his friends, Ovitz or at-large media mogul Barry Diller, to run it. But either of them would surely insist on substantial equity, and last week both were denying any interest in the job. It is more logical that Bronfman would urge Sheinberg to stay on-not least because that would assure MCA of a Spielberg-DreamWorks connection-but that Edgar Jr. would run the show...
...within days, under another pretext, it responded with its morning raid on 25 branches of a heretofore obscure sect called Aum Shinrikyo, which translates as Aum Supreme Truth. The sect, which started as a yoga school, focuses on the apocalypse to come-perhaps as soon as 1997. Its members insist it merely practices a form of Buddhism; but in reality it is a cult revolving around a long-haired, charismatic mystic, Shoko Asahara, a magnetic misfit who preaches that government efforts to obliterate his movement will coincide with the beginning of the end of the world. Throughout the week...
...dead automatically fall prey to violence. On the whole, Japan's is a remarkably peaceful society. But a century of wars, natural disasters and political extremism has produced spiritual confusion. Out of this have emerged those self-elected gods and followers who not only destroy themselves but also insist on taking others with them...
...shadow. Harbury, a Harvard-educated lawyer, had been pressuring the U.S. and Guatemalan governments to determine the fate of her husband, who disappeared in the Guatemalan jungle in March 1992. Although U.S. officials told her several times they believed Bamaca was dead, they gave her no definitive answers; they insist they have none. Nor did they mention any possible CIA involvement. That detail emerged only after Congressman Robert Torricelli, a Democrat from New Jersey and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, learned from sources of his own that in January the CIA had sent the State Department and White...
...many professors insist that even a limited ban can't work; others think it shouldn't be tried. Most college students, after all, are legal adults, capable of consent, and a university of all places should respect personal liberty. Professor bell hooks at City College in New York, who had affairs with professors while a student and once became the lover of a younger man after she had taught him, says, "No feminist thinks that banning abortions would keep women from having them. So why do we think that banning relationships between faculty and students will keep them from having...