Mr Clinton is also insisting that he will not take the stand while in office, something that may count against him.

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Second, while we are waiting for the cost containment provisions to take hold, we are insisting that health care reform be deficit neutral.

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Molinari is leaving Congress to take an anchor job at CBS, insisting that she has no plans to return to politics.

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But he showed no sign of that, insisting the tough decision to oppose it and the later decision not to take part in the Butler inquiry had been vindicated by events.

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Their reactions, though, have alternated over the years between insisting that reforms had already been made and stalling for time by stating that the reforms would take several years more to complete, maybe banking on the hope that American attention would drift.

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But Mr Fujimori's people are insisting that it should not include any discussion of the question of electoral fraud, and it may not take place.

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There might have been no better way for the chancellor to raise the money he wanted to raise, but the fact that he has made the job of the central bank harder - at the same time as insisting it take the lead in stimulating the recovery - is indeed a paradox.

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