Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...light of the discovery of these experiments, along with those at the Fernald School, I will insist that the Federal Inter-Agency Task Force give heightened attention to experiments with developmentally challenged children as part of its efforts to provide full disclosure of human radiation experiments," Markey said...
...that prick the West's collective conscience but do not seem important enough to command greater diplomatic or military involvement. The travails in delivery last week were only a symptom of the lack of political will in Western capitals to act forcefully. Humanitarian aid feels good to those who insist that something must be done to stop the killing in Bosnia, in Somalia, in a dozen other bloody conflicts. And it is far more politically palatable than sending soldiers to fight and die in countries -- without strategic assets like oil or nuclear weapons -- that few people can locate...
Many White House officials insist that in recent weeks they have tried to exclude Clinton from policy discussions until consensus has been reached, or at least glimpsed. Last month Clinton was simply presented with a task-force report on Superfund reauthorization, rather than engaging 20 experts on the matter. He attended a much smaller number of meetings on the 1995 budget than he did on 1994's a year ago, delegating greater authority and suffering many fewer leaks. "We're getting much better at diverting information from him," said an official. But others dispute these claims, saying little has changed...
...Harvard is careful not to seek federal fundsbut to go through a peer review process inconjunction with some organization," Martin says."We scrupulously insist on a peer review process...
...some of the dozen scholars who attended thedinner and subsequent day-long meeting with seniorWhite House staffers still insist they are moreakin to new artillery in Clinton's battle to meetthe demands of his presidency than risingpolitical stars...