Word: insist
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...does Joaquin Phoenix continue to insist he has a rap career? Torpedos...
Facing this latest delay, Administration officials are urging patience and insist they are moving more programs on more fronts faster than anyone has tried to do before. "People want a quick, clean, decisive resolution to this stuff, they want us to just fix it and have it be over with," says a senior Administration official. "We are moving in a relatively short period of time on a scale that I don't think you've ever seen an Administration...
...According to Reuters, the barely competent Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will insist that AIG pay back taxpayers the $165 million in bonuses before the government will send AIG its next $30 billion in bailout cash. The news service reports that Geithner wrote in a letter to Congress, "We will impose on AIG a contractual commitment to pay the Treasury from the operations of the company the amount of the retention awards just paid." (See the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...little to do but posture. "Unconscionable," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "Outrageous," said her Republican counterpart, John Boehner. Senator Chris Dodd, chair of the banking committee that failed to regulate AIG, called on the executives to "voluntarily" forgo their bonuses. The best the government looks able to do is insist on some tough new pay restrictions going forward before giving AIG its next installment of $30 billion...
...According to the church’s Web site, www.godhatesfags.com, its members “adhere to the teachings of the Bible, preach against all form of sin (e.g. fornication, adultery [including divorce and remarriage], sodomy), and insist that the sovereignty of God and the doctrines of grace be taught and expounded publicly...