Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...punishment is not surprising, since many judges insist that evidence of past abuse, even if it went on for years, is not relevant in court unless it occurred around the time of the killing. It is not the dead husband who is on trial, they note, but the wife who pulled the trigger. "Frankly, I feel changing the law would be authorizing preventive murder," argued Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lillian Stevens in the Los Angeles Times. "The only thing that really matters is, Was there an immediate danger? There can't be an old grievance." And even...
...intended to show the world that they can resolve their differences without outside intervention. Western observers believe a gradual reconciliation among Somalia's warring clans would be an essential prelude to the restoration of some form of responsible central authority. The commanders of the U.S.-led military force insist that their mission is limited to ensuring the delivery of food to hundreds of thousands of starving Somalis and that political reconciliation would be a serendipitous by-product. But the Kismayu reports and the green line thuggery point up the difficulty of creating even a semblance of order. With no government...
...might get a strong argument from America's Protestant creationists, who still insist that life on earth was created about 10,000 years ago and that a Flood engulfed the entire planet. In recent decades, creationists promoted their own brand of science and even persuaded a few state legislatures to decree that schools give Fundamentalist theories equal time with Darwin's evolution. Those laws were eventually struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court...
Still, analysts insist that IBM must get even leaner -- perhaps paring at least 50,000 more jobs within the next two years -- if it is to meet the challenge from smaller and nimbler competitors. Says Bruce Lupatkin, an industry analyst: "There's still a lot of fat left." CEO Akers agrees that layoffs are necessary for the company's long-term survival. "Although it's a difficult step to take," he says, "it's one that, given the realities, if we must do it, we must...
...fall. That at least will be the working hypothesis of the special prosecutor, named at the urging of Attorney General William Barr, to investigate lingering questions about a campaign caper that threatens to involve officials in the outgoing Bush White House. Chief of staff James Baker and his aides insist they didn't. But their statements contain troubling omissions and inconsistencies. Other evidence suggests that top Bush aides were desperate to confirm -- and publicize -- a rumor (false as it turned out) that the youthful Clinton had taken steps to renounce his American citizenship to avoid the draft...