Word: insists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discuss ways the industry and cities could reduce gun violence without getting the courts involved. And eight companies that make 80% of U.S.-made firearms will voluntarily include child-safety locks by the end of this year. It all looks nice and amicable, but lawyers for victims insist these changes are coming only because the industry is worried about the cost of digging in its heels. Says Attorney John McNicholas, who is bringing one case to trial: "There's nothing like affecting the bottom line of corporate America to get its attention...
...K.L.A., as well as the moderate ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova, insist that outright independence is the only acceptable solution. Milosevic shows no willingness to countenance that and has stalled on negotiations in order to launch his crackdown. The West frets that escalation of the conflict could lead to a Balkan war wider and more destabilizing than Bosnia's, drawing in Albania, Macedonia and even Greece. Holbrooke's aim is to cajole everyone to the bargaining table...
...pristine northwestern pocket of Michigan has long been defined by its bountiful and delicious cherry crop. Old-timers insist that the region's soul lives within the sprawling orchards. But the festival's banners, posters and promotional material tell a different story. The event these days seems not so much a celebration of a cherished fruit as a paean to corporate America. Everywhere you go, you are reminded that "Ameritech presents the National Cherry Festival." Pontiac, Pepsi, American Airlines and A.1 steak sauce have attached themselves to the blossom. More than a third of the festival's $2.2 million budget...
Dunlap appears to have given up on himself even before the board did. Members insist that firing Dunlap never crossed their minds until the man also known as "Rambo in pinstripes" raised the issue himself. At a fateful meeting on June 9, Dunlap said half a dozen times that he would go away quietly if the board were to buy him out of his contract. That was when the board lost confidence. "I was shocked," recalls board member Howard Kristol, a New York lawyer who represented Dunlap in his initial contract negotiation with Sunbeam. "We felt he had already left...
...naturally arose last week whether Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT was nervous that Holbrooke would try to eclipse her, especially since he would like to have her job in a Gore Administration. Albright's aides expressed shock that anyone could think such a thing. In fact, top Albright aides insist that she feels perfectly secure with her new underling. Before last week's announcement, the Secretary had a private meeting with Clinton and assured him, "I have no problem with strong men around me." Sensitive to concerns that he has a tendency to self-aggrandize, Holbrooke says emphatically that there...