Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...papal assassination. TIME has also learned that Mantarov did not have diplomatic status at the Bulgarian embassy; he was, in fact, a technician attached to the commercial section. And at least one important detail in the Times story may be wrong: Bulgarian émigrés living in Paris insist that Mantarov defected on April 11, 1981, not the following July. If the earlier date is correct, Mantarov would have defected before the assassination attempt. The timing is crucial, since Mantarov then could have told French authorities about the plot before the attempt took place. What makes this speculation important...
Most bankers and retailers, however, are dragging their feet about reducing credit-card charges. Bankers insist that these accounts are exceptionally expensive to administer and, as a result, interest charges on them have always been high. In many states, credit-card rates have hovered at 18% or more for at least a decade, through periods when the banks' cost of borrowing was roughly half what it is now, so those rates seem unlikely to drop below 18% any time soon...
...turns out, the distance is huge. By now the writer-performers of the Python troupe have become a true flying circus, engaged in savage aerial combat with the institutionalized madness and hypocrisy of the age, performing their comic loops and turns dangerously close to a battleground that, they insist on reminding us with every low-swooping pass, is a sea of muck, blood and offal...
Though cost-cutting, staff attrition and "general tightening up." Harvard's affiliated hospitals insist that they can maintain their current level of patient services while staying within the bounds of the state's new hospital budget control law, administrators at eight of the 13 institutions said last week...
...rectangle bordered by shops and the city's police and fire stations) when he phoned the TV newsroom three times within half an hour. He was there when Simmons and Harris arrived and set up their lights and camera, more than an hour after Andrews' original call. The police insist that they and volunteer firemen combed the area, but were unable to spot any sign of a potential suicide. They dispersed minutes before the news crew arrived...