Word: insist
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...Terry and Mahan insist that senior gifts can influence HMC decisions about adjustments to endowment payouts...
...circumstances of his Saudi detention will also be an issue. Once the Saudis decided they didn't have much of a case, they believed they were doing the U.S. a favor by letting the FBI park Abu Ali there, says a source close to the case. The Americans insist the Saudis were not merely keeping Abu Ali on ice but, in the words of a State Department official, "wanted this guy. They thought they could charge him." Either way, the situation came to a head when federal District Judge John Bates ruled that the U.S. might have to disclose...
...Administration officials insist the President's new posture is genuine. Bush, they say, wants to put the emphasis on diplomacy. In private, though, senior officials traveling with the President made it clear that the U.S. position had not changed on the most contentious issues: America, for instance, remains staunchly opposed to the E.U.'s move to lift the China arms embargo. And Bush is unlikely to soften his position on negotiating with Iran over the country's nuclear program, though his message on this point was mixed. Asked about U.S. intentions toward Iran, Bush replied: "This notion that the United...
UNTIL RECENTLY, THERE HAVE BEEN TWO groups of people: those who argue sex differences are innate and should be embraced and those who insist that they are learned and should be eliminated by changing the environment. Sax is one of the few in the middle--convinced that boys and girls are innately different and that we must change the environment so differences don't become limitations...
Girls like Woody insist on having a chance. "It's not always easy to find a wrestling partner," she says. "No one wants a girl." Puberty typically lifts most boys out of her weight class; it also means boys grow exponentially stronger than girls, lessening the girls' chance of winning. But Woody and thousands like her are standing their ground. "I never have to sit out practice because I always make someone practice with me," she says...