Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hunger to know what life would be like if the Republican revolution succeeds, here is a tangible example: small children would eat more Raisin Bran and less Cheerios, at least in Michigan. Of course, the libertarian Republicans would not insist. Their "Contract with America" would simply hand the choice to the states, where, they say, it belongs. But to the maker of Cheerios, the provision that passed the House last week is nothing less than a cereal killer...
...troops to hand over security duties to a multinational U.N. force. Aristide asked the FBI to investigate the assassination of ultranationalist Mireille Durocher Bertin. A Haitian government source today told TIME contributor Bernard Diederich that Aristide had advance warning of the killing, and offered Bertin protection. Haitian officials insist that the opposition killed one of its own in order to embarrass Aristide and Clinton...
Many people who know Fuhrman, including African-American friends, a black former partner and black crime victims he has helped, insist he is not, and never was, a racist. Fuhrman's second wife, schoolteacher Janet Hackett, told Time last week, "There's no way I would have married someone with that agenda. I'm very sensitive to that issue. I teach kids of all ethnic groups. I don't even like [racist] jokes." Instead, claims Hackett, who is backed up by several other people close to Fuhrman, the violence he saw on the streets nearly made him snap. "Nobody understands...
...Schmitz, who had appeared on the same Jones segment. Schmitz was told he would be confronted by a "secret admirer"; the shock of discovering that the person who had a crush on him was a man, Schmitz told police later, had "eaten away" at him. The show's producers insist that Schmitz was informed his admirer could be a man or a woman. Jones, in a statement before a taping of her show last week, expressed sympathy for the man's family but denied that the man himself had been misled. "As much as we all regret what happened...
State Department sources insist that there is no hard evidence that any U.S. personnel hid information,TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannonreports. But Shannon notes the CIA inpector general is investigating the case, "and that means that there's at least a question...