Word: insist
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...understand why the United States government would insist that I be absent before its soldiers arrive." CHARLES TAYLOR, president of Liberia, claiming he won't leave his country until peacekeepers intervene to prevent violence between warring factions; President Bush has asserted that Taylor's departure would be a prerequisite for U.S. troop deployment...
...Guantánamo, but given the protection of U.S. courts. "Guantánamo is bad enough," says a U.K. official, "but the worst thing is that we fought alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq and suffered casualties, and in the aftermath its citizens are treated differently." U.S. officials insist the tribunals are much better than the European perception. "There will be a presumption of innocence, a requirement of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and no adverse inference if a defendant decides to remain silent," says Major John Smith, an attorney in the Office of Military Commissions. If the death...
...Even more damning are reports that CIA sources insist the Bush administration was made aware some time before the State of the Union address that the Niger allegation was false. If those prove true, it kicks the jams out from under the administration's claim that the presence of a falsehood in the President's case against Iraq was simply the product of ignorance. And it may be expected that the CIA will more and more sharply signal that it passed its findings up the food chain, because on the basis of Ambassador Wilson's revelations, they'd be left...
Franklin's freethinking unnerved his family. When his parents wrote of their concern over his "erroneous opinions," Franklin replied with a letter that spelled out a religious philosophy based on tolerance that would last his life. It would be vain for any person to insist that "all the doctrines he holds are true and all he rejects are false." The same could be said of the opinions of different religions. He had little use for the doctrinal distinctions his mother worried about. "I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. And the Scripture assures...
...CALLED. Many preferred shares are "callable," meaning that the issuing company has the right to cancel them on a certain date if interest rates have fallen sharply. Always find out whether and when a preferred issue is callable. Insist that your broker give you not just the current dividend yield but also the "yield to call." That will estimate your income if the issue gets yanked away...