Word: insist
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...will not be a movie or even the Kimberley Process that determines whether America's favorite gemstone can be purchased ethically. That's up to the consumers, who should insist that jewelers show them proof that their suppliers have a System of Warranties statement on their invoices, demonstrating compliance with the Kimberley Process. Even if this doesn't prove that a diamond is clean, it proves that customers care about the source of their icons of love...
...Beyond that, U.S. officials say, Afghanistan can't be viewed in isolation. Like the carnival game of Whack-a-Mole - where furry creatures keep popping up out of holes you're not hammering - success in Afghanistan will solve only half of Washington's terrorism challenge. Victory there, officials insist, will mean little in the war on terror if the U.S. fails in Iraq - and ends up providing al-Qaeda and its allies the kind of sanctuary in Iraq that they once enjoyed in Afghanistan. But that's a problem the military wouldn't mind having. For as long...
...From the beginning, we tried to make sure that we understood each other to help ideas mesh,” says stage director Matthew M. Spellberg ’09 of his work with choreographer Larissa D. Koch ’08. They insist that they have never worked together before, but Spellberg and Koch appear extremely attuned to each other’s sensibilities...
...president in opposition to the characteristics of the last one. Mendelsohn said the shift in formally including faculty indicated the Corporation’s realization that “they flopped” in picking Summers in 2001. “When a governing board has to fire or insist on the resignation of its CEO, you’ve made some real mistake.” Many professors say that the search which culminated in the selection of Summers is a study in how the process should not be conducted—with limited input from professors and excessive...
...principal platform of my campaign--and improving public security. Regarding poverty, I want to create a public-policy consensus, above all in education and health, that will let me move ahead quickly, and I'll need support from the Congress for these budget priorities. As for employment, I insisted during my campaign--and I still insist--that we need a competitive, job-creating economy. But in order to have that, you have to make market conditions more competitive, and that means reducing the monopoly power of some public and private companies. Third, public safety is the most difficult challenge...