Word: insists
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...Soviet interceptors signal the airliner to change course or to land, and if so, did the Korean crew ignore the signals? The Soviets, of course, insist that both answers are yes. But so far the tapes of their air-to-ground reports have not borne out the claim. Moreover, the KAL crew would have made its own radio report of such action, if it had been able...
...European backers, NASA added a day to the initial schedule for STS-8, thus allowing more time for the crew to check the voice, data and video transmission circuits of TDRS. Though the system delivered an "out of order" message to the President, NASA technicians were at pains to insist that at other times during the week, the performance of the relay satellite, like Challenger itself, was "fantastic." -By Kenneth M. Pierce. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Kennedy Space Center
French officials insist that their plan will eventually succeed, but they now make fewer claims about its potential as a simple solution for unemployment. Says Finance Minister Jacques Delors: "Work sharing should not be considered the principal instrument in the struggle against unemployment but rather an important tool." Concurs Michel Sailly, a spokesman for the pro-Socialist Confédération Française D&3233;mocratique du Travail, France's second largest union: "We realize that continuing on our path to the 35-hour week is not the only answer to unemployment, but it is still...
Tenderfeet will find natives shockingly nosy. The plumber may ask personal, pointed questions of new arrivals. The auto-body repairman may insist on discovering how one likes local living before he repairs the station wagon that hit the deer. A simple request to have the Sunday paper set aside at the variety store may bring on a village history about how things have always been done and will never, if God remains in ruburban Heaven, ever change...
...complete as the urinalysis conducted later. Michels reportedly told fellow athletes that the technicians awed him by naming the date in April when he had last used steroids and by saying they could also pinpoint the exact dosage. The twelve athletes who fled before facing the test insist that they are not steroid users, but some said that they were worried about urinalysis turning up other, more innocuous substances like caffeine, which are also on the IOC's list of more than 300 banned drugs...