Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president's announcement was immediately endorsed by the all-powerful military is certainly encouraging, but that same military has repeatedly vowed to protect the Timorese from the very violence in which it turns out to have been an active participant. And, wouldn?t you know it, Indonesia?s generals insist they won?t accept Australians in the peacekeeping mission -- Australia has been tapped to lead any U.N.-authorized force. "Indonesia?s strategy will be to stall and confuse the issue as much as possible," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Annan will be pushing for an unconditional acceptance...
Local police say Repreza and some buddies got into an exchange of taunts with kids on the street. Police insist it was neither gang related nor racially motivated, but in the brawl that ensued, Straight Edgers squared off against non-Straight Edgers, and racial slurs were heard...
...birth of the solar system ?- and found tiny droplets of seawater, still in liquid form and capable of answering one of astronomy?s big questions: Was Earth born with water, or was water thrust upon it? Some scientists say water was created on Earth by happy circumstance, but others insist that it was delivered on comets and meteorites ?- and therefore might have nurtured life elsewhere. "It?s no real surprise that there would be water left over from the formation of the solar system, but now scientists have it in front of them," says TIME senior science writer Michael Lemonick...
...specter of unconstitutional moves. Inside Russia, Putin is known as an "ice-head" or tough hardened guy--not the ideal pedigree for shoring up the nation's rickety democratic system. But while Putin and Yeltsin could declare a state of emergency, disband the Duma or cancel elections, Kremlin aides insist that Yeltsin appreciates the importance of a peaceful transfer of power...
...heart of the fight over hard-to-serve people is a dispute over their character. Are they, as liberals say, workers held back by lack of skills, child-care problems and other facts of life beyond their control? Or are they, as conservatives insist, underachievers at best and shirkers at worst...