Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that age group show up in the data bases, critics complained that police authorities single out young black men and stereotype them as gang members simply by the way they dress and where they live. The police deny that they indiscriminately enter names in the data bases and insist that the numbers are an accurate reflection of the severity of the problem. "We don't have to create gang members," says McBride. "People are becoming too hung up on exact numbers. Even if the number drops by 10,000, we still have a serious problem...
...hazardous duty. On opening day at the huge conference in Rio de Janeiro, the administrator of America's Environmental Protection Agency faced an aggressive global press corps that could hardly hurl its pointed questions fast enough. Why won't the U.S. sign the biodiversity treaty? Why did the U.S. insist on watering down the climate-change pact? Why do Americans consume so much? Isn't it hypocritical for America to call for protection of tropical forests while cutting down its own ancient trees? Asked, finally, how it felt to field so much criticism, Reilly called it "an experience in character...
White House campaign officials insist Bush did not let election-year politics dictate his decision, but Ira Kurzban, lawyer for Miami's Haitian Refugee Center, believes otherwise. "The Haiti policy," he says, "plays to the basest part of the Republican Party, the anti-alien group, the racists, to keep them from crossing over to Ross Perot...
...best shows make it on the air? Network programmers insist they do; viewers will have to wait until the fall to decide. But between demographics and dealmaking, the chance for diversity seems to be shrinking along with the network audience...
Store officials insist they keep the price of textbooks as low as possible. The cost of the labor needed to meet unusual textbook requests, though, jacks up the price...