Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mental-health services, emergency housing funds, day care, homemaker assistance and parenting courses have already been scaled back in most places, and may disappear entirely under the legislation that Congress is considering, which would also slice up to $2.9 billion more from child-protection services nationwide. Republican cost cutters insist that the states can do more with less. "A lot of these agencies built the bureaucracy and have trouble dismantling it," says Florida Republican Representative Clay Shaw, "but the states can't keep up with the red tape, the regulations and the reports they have to file." Child advocates disagree...
...council should be quick to capitalize on student interest in these elections. However, there seems to be some inconsistency within the council. While an unofficial committee has been formed, some members insist that critics have never attended meetings of the informal committee to incorporate popular elections. Other members believe these meetings have not been publicized enough. Council members need to get their acts together and move on these popular elections before students forget what popular elections...
...pile of legal and diplomatic documents the three Presidents signed add up to an extremely complex new design for Bosnia that will be hard to construct and easy to paralyze. It turns the country into a republic containing two "entities." American officials insist this is not a partition and that Bosnia is a unified state, but other observers, including Bosnians, are not so sure. The Bosnian Serb holdings, the Republika Srpska, total 49% of the land. The other entity is a federation of Muslims-- called Bosniacs in the documents--and Bosnian Croats. All citizens will be free to travel...
Some hockey players have been known to eat chicken before every game to ensure their optimum performance. Others insist they must lace up their left skate ahead of their right...
AILING. MARION BARRY, 59, mayor of Washington; from prostate cancer; in Washington. The controversy-dependent overseer of the nation's capital and his doctors insist the ailment was caught soon enough to ensure complete recovery...