Word: insist
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...this country, of course, we don't have a nobility, the idea having been outlawed by the Founding Fathers (who nevertheless insist on being known by capital letters). Human nature and affectation being what they are, we have naturally produced a nobility of our own, somewhat more transient although hardly less worthy than the British kind. Their lordships were created by the Sovereign, ours by Sam Goldwyn. Theirs try to be seen with the Queen, ours with Joan Rivers. What our crowd lacks in gravitas, it makes up in laughs. Nor has it produced a noticeably poorer class of peer...
...importance of such work is already great and promises to grow even greater in the future. If government officials insist on assessing the quality of higher education in ways that will affect the lives of students and the welfare of institutions, it is essential that the means of evaluation be more sophisticated than the standardized tests currently used for these purposes...
Some countries have responded to the recent spate of terrorist hijackings by deploying heavily armed guards and armored vehicles at airports. Although reluctant to discuss what other safety measures have been taken to meet new threats, airline officials insist that both detection technology and security personnel are under constant review. Explains Pan Am Spokesman James Arey: "The terrorists out there use every nugget of information to help develop their master plan." Some insiders, however, are skeptical. An Alitalia pilot believes that terrorist attacks galvanize airport security police into only temporary vigilance. "That lasts about a week," he complains. Too often...
Critics of RICO in the business community insist that Congress never intended the law to be used against legitimate enterprises. Yet a recent 15:35American Bar Association study found that only 9% of the civil RICO suits it sampled had allegations of typical Mob crimes, like arson, bribery or extortion. Most of the rest simply alleged securities or commercial frauds. Often even garden-variety contract disputes have RICO charges thrown...
While Bok cited the cost of the proposal as the major impediment to the Corporation's agreeing to finance the project, many in the community insist that the University bears some responsibility as a corporate citizen of Cambridge to pitch...