Word: insist
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...divide has formed over the pay issue. Some on the board insist that all directors were aware of Grasso's pay and agreed to set it so high partly because the exchange is not publicly traded and cannot grant stock options to retain top managers. But exchange director H. Carl McCall, who remains a Grasso supporter, says he and others were unaware of how the numbers added up. He faults the Big Board's human-resources staff for not clarifying the amounts Grasso was accumulating through complicated bonus and pension formulas. "Not everyone on the board understood, in aggregate...
...mood disorders are a sign of psychic weakness. Investigators at the NIMH and elsewhere are digging into the hormonal and genetic roots of depression, while doctors are trying to get word out that there are treatments--both psychological and pharmacological--that really work. Men who continue to suffer, they insist, do so needlessly...
...period is forcing changes. Prepared remarks are shorter, and even brief speeches are increasingly finished by an aide. The Pope did appear to bounce back a bit after his return from Slovakia, meeting with diplomatic delegations and reading most of the text during his Wednesday general audience. Senior aides insist that proposed trips to France, Poland and Mexico next year haven't been ruled out. But the day may be near when the Pope is simply a silent presence. "We are rewriting the entire Roman rite to accommodate his health situation," says the Rome priest. "The question is where...
...Dartboard knows that even Mather House has its diehard fans who insist that the East German train depot they call home is really wicked awesome (and Dartboard expects at least a few rambling/incoherent/threatening letters from a Matherista or two in the name of “House pride”). But Dartboard believes that such thoughts are simply the products of defective or possibly deranged minds...
...entirely clearly defined support role previously occupied by late Sergio Vieira De Mello, the accomplished diplomat killed in last month's bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad. Absolutely not, say the French, Russians and Chinese. The only basis to confer UN legitimacy on the military mission, they insist, is to put the international body in charge of supervising the political transition to Iraqi self-rule (as in Afghanistan, East Timor and Kosovo). Anything short of UN political control, they say, would be to underwrite a U.S. occupation of Iraq - and that's something the nations that opposed the war remain...