Word: insists
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Moreover, 18 firms reported that an applicant's sexual orientation is sometimes considered a factor in determining insurability. That practice defies guidelines issued by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and is against the law in eight states. But insurance executives insist that they must be allowed to limit their liabilities: a typical AIDS patient receives up to $130,000 worth of medical care...
...soldiers spent their four months of basic training learning to fight enemy armies, not to police occupied lands or control riots. The troops have also labored under a series of ambiguous orders as their bewildered generals struggled to find policies that worked. Though Israeli leaders insist that the soldiers are supposed to open fire only when their lives are endangered and beat Palestinians only when confronted, inexperienced conscripts find it hard to define those conditions precisely. And while military leaders now insist that there was no blanket order to administer indiscriminate beatings, the soldiers in the field and the Palestinians...
Last spring, several undergraduate organizations led by divestment activists conducted a campus-wide petition drive to insist that the University's chief governing body hold an open meeting between students and Corporation members. The even-man body rejected the request but agreed to a closed meeting with a select group of council members and house committee chairmen...
...Soviet Union tries to insist that foreign ships stick to specified sea lanes when making an innocent passage, something it has no right to do, the lawyer said...
...infected patient is a native of the Cape Verde Islands off the western coast of Africa. Her diagnosis was quickly confirmed at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta with specialized blood tests that are not yet commercially available. CDC officials insist that her HIV-2 infection is an isolated case. Epidemiologists have screened nearly 23,000 U.S. blood samples for HIV-2 in the past 13 months without finding a single case. Says the CDC's Gerald Schochetman: "At present there is no great concern...