Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...points out that after the bombings, the Security Council just isn?t what it used to be. ?Nobody got a chance to veto when the U.S. and Britain acted alone,? he says. ?For the U.S., which doesn?t even pay its dues, it?s going to be hard to insist on having its way again. Iraq may simply cease to be a Security Council issue.? Which is why Pentagon head William Cohen is headed to the Gulf Wednesday for a Christmas visit with the troops -- they may be there for a long time...
State Department officials now question whether the CIA missed clues to a future attack in those papers. Intelligence officials insist that none of the evidence taken revealed a bombing plot. Bin Laden definitely had a cell in Nairobi, the CIA reported to the embassy at the time, but the agency had no idea what he planned to do with it. Bin Laden had made plenty of public threats against the U.S., but the CIA believed he would be most likely to carry them out in Persian Gulf countries, where there was a U.S. military presence he hated, not in East...
Employees insist, however, that management has known about the problem for years--and actively concealed it. In 1992 OSHA fined the airline for its failure to maintain complete records of employee illnesses and injuries at the center for each year since 1987, with an additional fine for failing to record descriptions of illnesses and injuries in 80 cases during 1992 alone. According to Hardage, the company has since complied, and the fines have been reduced...
...technology has never been successfully employed to circumnavigate the globe. But where technical difficulties, bad weather and worse luck have taken their toll in the past, the dark clouds of politics are threatening now as Richard Branson, Steve Fossett and Per Lindstrand approach northern Chinese airspace -- which Chinese authorities insist is off limits...
WASHINGTON: Bill Clinton continues to insist that where Bob Livingston went, he will not follow. Flanked by his wife, Al Gore and dozens of House Democrats on the South Lawn just hours after his impeachment, Clinton promised to remain in the White House until "the last hour of the last day of my term." Citing both the nation?s business and the people?s will as reasons to stay on, Clinton thanked the Democrats for their honor and said that the only question is "what are we going...