Word: insist
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...aides to the clinic, where they warned doctors not to report a rape. Furious, the father demanded to see Saddam himself. Rebuffed, he kept complaining publicly about what Uday had done. After three months, the President's son had had enough. He sent two guards to the man to insist that he drop the matter. Uday had another demand: that the ex-governor bring his daughter and her 12-year-old sister to his next party. "Your daughters will be my girlfriends, or I'll wipe you off the face of the earth." The man complied, surrendering both girls...
...delivered to Congress this summer--and outlined in budget documents circulating on Capitol Hill--cuts back that schedule to only nine test shots. That comes in spite of the fact that the shield has performed successfully in only five of eight tests conducted so far. Pentagon officials insist they have learned so much from those tests that carrying out all 20 would be a waste of money. They say the program remains on track to begin defending the nation by the fall of 2004--just before the next presidential election. --By Mark Thompson
...launching of a Hezbollah-style guerrilla insurgency among Iraqi Shiites. So far there are no signs of that, and the increasingly assertive Shiite political activity in Iraq has remained largely peaceful. The Iraqi Shiite community doesn't require Iranian influence to generate suspicion of U.S. motives or to insist on a role in government consistent with its two thirds majority of Iraq's population - and it could be a dangerous mistake for U.S. officials to imagine every expression of Islamist sentiment among Iraqi Shiites as the handiwork of Iran...
...your antique sofas are a lot heavier than they look or if he used more packing material than anticipated--but he has to deliver your belongings.) Move within your state, however, and you are protected only by state laws, which vary in effectiveness. For in-state moves, insist that your bill of lading--the written receipt you get the day of the move--give you the same protection as the federal...
...Health officials in Taipei insist they are now doing everything by the book. They claim that effective infection-control measures currently in place in hospitals mean that the load of new cases will soon decrease. Most of last week's reported spike, says Taiwan's Center for Disease Control chief Su Yi-jen, were the result of a backlog of 545 patients that had not been processed?meaning the victims were infected before new safety standards were introduced. "We're at the stage when we're about to come down," he says...