Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...field more ruthlessly and carved more world records for himself (35--18 indoors, 17 outdoors) than any other sportsman in history. But Bubka is more than simply the world's premier vaulter. He is an athlete who has so transcended his event that his most formidable competitors (some insist his only competitors) are himself and whatever law of physics ordains that a human being has no business leaping the height of a two-story town house...
Branson's friends all insist that he is genuinely shy. Shy? A man who once made a speech dressed in a bunny suit? He admits he will do almost anything to advance his companies. It's an act that plays well, and compared with the standard model overstuffed British executive--well, the comparison just isn't fair. Sir David Frost, the transatlantic television personality and partner in Virgin Radio, says, "Richard has always presented himself as a rebel against the Establishment, although now he is an establishment...
...cleanup efforts is also in sharp dispute. Some initial skeptics took heart from the high caliber of FBI agents hired by the union: Robert Luskin, a former federal organized-crime prosecutor; Douglas Gow, formerly the No. 2 man at the FBI; and a fleet of seasoned former agents. They insist they are totally independent of Coia. Critics point out that they are paid by the union, which Coia still heads...
...succession of cheating, drug-dealing and car-theft scandals at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland; and the May 16 suicide of Admiral Jeremy ("Mike") Boorda, the Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda and other top Navy brass were briefed on the case several times. But Navy officials insist the smuggling investigation, code-named Operation White Stallion, was perceived by Boorda and his colleagues not as another blot on the service but as evidence of its hard-nosed antidrug policy. "We've said time and time again, there's no place for drugs in the U.S. Navy," says Rear Admiral...
Epps said yesterday that he would not insist on appointing Assistant Dean of Public Service Judith H. Kidd as executive director of PBHA, another sore point with students...