Word: insistent
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...divide has formed over the pay issue. Some on the board insist that all directors were aware of Grasso's pay and agreed to set it so high partly because the exchange is not publicly traded and cannot grant stock options to retain top managers. But exchange director H. Carl McCall, who remains a Grasso supporter, says he and others were unaware of how the numbers added up. He faults the Big Board's human-resources staff for not clarifying the amounts Grasso was accumulating through complicated bonus and pension formulas. "Not everyone on the board understood, in aggregate...
...mood disorders are a sign of psychic weakness. Investigators at the NIMH and elsewhere are digging into the hormonal and genetic roots of depression, while doctors are trying to get word out that there are treatments--both psychological and pharmacological--that really work. Men who continue to suffer, they insist, do so needlessly...
Weaver's wife was sympathetic, but she also insisted that he see a doctor. Insel says this kind of feminine push--from a wife, daughter or mother--is often what it takes to get a depressed man into treatment. In Weaver's case it was relatively easy, since he at least realized that something was wrong. For many men, it's the women of the house who not only insist on treatment but must diagnose the disorder in the first place...
...wish to marry, you must insist on it. Commit yourself to the idea...
...though construction is nearly finished. Mr. Truong surprises us by talking the guard at the government checkpoint into letting us through. The road lies between a stream and a cliff overgrown with ferns. It offers some of the most stunning scenery we've seen, but the construction workers-who insist we join them in a noontime toast of rice wine-are less charmed by it: two of their colleagues are bedridden with malaria. There are other dangers: since the roadwork began, more than 20,000 wartime bombs have been unearthed and detonated along the route...