Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...science as well. He's not descended from monkeys, the presidential candidate told Sam Donaldson on ABC's This Week, and he doesn't think children should be taught that they are. "I believe you're a creature of God," he said. "I think [parents] have a right to insist that Godless evolution not be taught to their children or their children not be indoctrinated...
Obsessive compulsive illness is one where a person becomes obsessed with something to such a degree that he or she can think about nothing else. Such people may insist on washing their hands repeatedly, all day long, or mopping the floor over and over again constantly...
...faculty and administrators insist that performing must remain secondary to academic study within Harvard's Music Department...
...bitch spend all his." Liggett Group, for instance, spent an estimated $75 million fighting the Cipollone case in New Jersey; though the jury awarded the husband of Rose Cipollone, who died of lung cancer, $400,000 in damages, that verdict was overturned on appeal. Tobacco experts insist they are undaunted by the slew of new lawsuits, and they point out that Jeffrey Wigand has yet to be cross-examined. In fact, five law firms are representing B&W in its breach-of-contract lawsuit against Wigand, who notes dryly, "I'm just a little schoolteacher, and they are how many...
...oddly enough, money may not be paramount in a field where four or five candidates insist on dividing the anti-Pat vote. That's because the rules for selecting delegates are different in the primary states that come later in the race. Until now, the primary calendar has been an almost quaint exercise in good government. Almost all the delegates apportioned so far have been handed out fair and square, one man, one vote--the candidate with 30% of the vote got about 30% of the delegates...