Word: insist
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...speech on Jan. 27, he said the government's obsession with the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi and the "grievance industry" of treaty claims risked creating "a racially divided nation, with two sets of laws and two standards of citizenship." A National government, he declared, would insist on "one rule for all." It would end special treatment for Maori, abolish the Maori Development Ministry and the seven parliamentary seats reserved for Maori, purge laws of references to the treaty, wind up the treaty claims process as soon as possible - and return the foreshores to Crown ownership...
...program works. Even after only two weeks at Harvard, spring transfers like Ernst already have an extensive list of extracurriculars—his includes membership in Alpha Epsilon Pi and Harvard Students for Israel. Transfers gush about how friendly, down-to-earth and welcoming Harvard students are and insist that Harvard...
...They insist that they are not here because of major problems with their former colleges. Saha speaks fondly of the close friendships she made at Wellesley and Hsu reminisces about a time when Thursday night was a part of the weekend. Most say that Harvard has simply proved to be a better fit, and has provided the kind of resources and environment that other universities can?...
...real question for many who believe that the fat-rich Atkins diet may help shed pounds but could raise cholesterol to dangerous levels--the medical report noted that Atkins had a history of myocardial infarction (translation: heart attack), congestive heart failure and high blood pressure. The Atkins people insist his coronary arteries were fine until he got a viral infection three years ago that reduced his heart's pumping capacity to 15% to 20% of normal, just shy of making him a candidate for a transplant. But conspiracy theorists wanted to attribute Atkins' condition to his fat-skewed diet...
Will Hugo carry out his suicide by cigarette? Is Bellatrix in fact his flesh and blood? Why does he insist on being such a jerkface? All compelling questions, but the real fun is watching Hugo squirm and rant like a crazed Frasier Crane as he desperately tries to avoid the company of his fellow characters, whom he despises almost as much as he hates himself. Hugo belongs on the same gnarled family tree as Lolita's Humbert Humbert as well as--somewhere deep down in the root system--Hannibal Lecter. They fascinate because they reconcile exquisite refinement with total loathsomeness...