Word: detest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business. While the industry's trade group, the Committee of National Security Companies (CONSCO), supports Lipman's call for access, some of his competitors have effectively blocked legislation that might upgrade overall industry standards but would also increase costs and thus threaten profits. A bill they especially detest, recently introduced by Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Jr., would require minimum levels of screening and training for all guards hired by the Federal Government, as well as criminal-records checks and psychological testing. "Why the hell do we need the Federal Government in here?" explodes Pinkerton's president Albert Berger...
...Americans deeply detest Big Oil? After all, observes Stegemeier, "No one seems too concerned when orange juice goes up after a freeze. Society says everyone should have a free market, except the oil industry." Harvard Medical School psychologist Steven Berglas, who works with corporations that suffer from image problems, concurs. "People resent powerful entities that control necessities like oil," he explains. "We can actually gain psychological control by hating them." Berglas also suspects that some civilians deflect their anti-Iraq feelings toward Big Oil, a more accessible target. "You and I are not flying F-15s," he says...