Word: insists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult to draw firm conclusions from random interviews, but it is obvious that many Afrikaners regard the traditional apartheid as doomed. They anticipate significant changes and, though anxious and apprehensive, insist they are ready to cope with them. Whether they are really ready is another question...
Harvard is the biggest plunger, having handed $50 million to a Houston- based consortium. The backers insist that putting money into drilling is a brainy idea, even though energy prices are in the doldrums. Insists Scott Sperling, a partner in Harvard's investment unit: "We're getting in near the bottom...
...political coffers for 1988. But the lingering 1984 debt remains an annoying distraction. U.S. marshals made surprise raids on two Los Angeles-area Hart fund raisers last week, seizing the receipts on behalf of a small ad agency that is owed $165,900 from 1984. Hart's aides insist, with seeming validity, that 1988 campaign funds cannot be garnisheed. At week's end, however, the money remained in the marshals' custody...
Diplomats who have served in Moscow insist that Americans have assumed for decades that all their conversations might be overheard, and made it a rule to take precautions. George Kennan remembers discovering a Soviet bug in the Ambassador's residence when he was a young foreign-service officer in Moscow in the 1930s and finding a more sophisticated one in the beak of the eagle in the Great Seal of the U.S. when he was Ambassador to Moscow in 1952. (President Eisenhower disclosed that bug years later during the U-2 spyplane crisis.) Says Kennan: "For half a century...
...average stay at St. Elizabeths for criminally insane patients is five years. Doctors argue that Hinckley is no more of a risk than the hundreds of others released every day. Were it not for the fame of his victim, they insist, he would probably have already been freed. But Hinckley's case, which comes up for review every six months, will inevitably remain problematic. "There is no precedent for dealing with assassins," says Dr. Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who testified at the 1982 Hinckley trial. "None have ever been released from custody alive...