Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medicine, has no licensing procedure, no disciplinary panels, no agreed-upon code of behavior. Practices that are perfectly acceptable to some major news-gathering institutions -- such as going undercover to expose wrongdoing -- are forbidden at others. At most places, no sin is automatically a firing offense. Editors insist on treating each case individually, which usually translates into permissively. Says USA Today editor Peter Prichard: "It depends on the circumstances, the individual case, the history, all sorts of things...
Although "K. House" has been viewed in past years as a haven for undergraduate athletes, residents insist that randomization is bringing a swift end to Kirkland's days as a jock house...
...timbre and wrist circumference -- smile sagely at the validation of their perspicacity. Stephen Woolley, the film's producer, theorizes that perhaps a quarter of the audience knows Dil's gender at once, another quarter suspects it, and at least half are completely in the dark. "Many," he says, "still insist that Jaye is a girl...
...encounter to find its manifestation there. In "Two Bodies" the "gay male cultural project" is that of "resurrecting the flesh" in a culture that closets, isolates and armors male flesh rather than expose it for communal display, and Barthes participates in this project when "without at all failing to insist on the body's material lovability, [he] is moved to conceive this body in its most embarrassed state...
...have the goods on Edgar and Clyde, including compromising photographs of the two men engaging in oral sex. That knowledge provided the mob with rich blackmail material. It protected gangsters like Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello from FBI scrutiny for more than 20 years and forced Hoover to insist that syndicated crime was not a national problem...