Word: insists
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Yeltsin's absence is deeply disconcerting. Despite his long history of mood swings, back pain, heart weakness and heavy drinking, his aides protest that nothing is wrong: Yeltsin, they insist, just needs a rest. Last week, however, a senior member of the new Yeltsin team, national security adviser Alexander Lebed, deviated from the reassuring official line. He told the Financial Times that Yeltsin was suffering from "moral, emotional and psychological exhaustion...
While some government officials insist such predictions are overly pessimistic, Andrei Illarionov, director of Moscow's Economic Analysis Institute, a reform-minded think tank, told a press conference last week that the coming year would be a tough one for the Russian economy. "What is in store for us," he predicted, "in terms of scale of the problem exceeds what we have faced in the past." Waiting in the wings for just such a doomsday scenario to come to pass are Russia's Communists, who have consoled themselves after defeat in the recent election by predicting that Yeltsin's victory...
...Eighth Commandment. Parker now says that in February, "I warned Joe that those unequivocal statements were going to cause him trouble. It's never a good idea not to tell the truth." But Joe didn't listen--the whodunit gimmick was boosting sales--and Parker didn't insist. Instead, Parker published an item by senior editor Jonathan Alter guessing at Anonymous' identity, thus dragging the magazine into Klein's credibility gap. "In retrospect, I shouldn't have published the item. Our interests diverged at that point." Parker has apologized to Alter, who has not yet heard from Klein. "What happened...
...also realize that a lot of people wouldn't want Ross Perot along for the expensive dinner, even if that meant they'd have to pay for their own grub. For one thing, he would almost certainly insist on ordering for you. "No, you don't want the striped bass," he'd say. "The fish they serve in this place haven't been in the water since the Great Flood. Waiter, bring him the rib roast. Well done. Just burn her up. And don't go sprinkling on any of those Gucci spices of yours. He wants an honest piece...
...What I think Harvard will not do and no one wants it to do is insist that a department take a spouse to get the other person," Maier says...