Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...challengers insist that they are only trying to restore discipline and Christian values to the nation's classrooms. Not so, reply their opponents: the right's aim -- here noisily, there stealthily -- is to replace public education with home schooling and parochial education. But the guerrilla warfare is actually far more than a battle for children's minds. Some conservatives are using public classrooms as a staging ground from which to advance to the political arena their moral crusade against gay rights, abortion, cultural diversity and any other national inclination that they perceive as a secular evil...
That's fine -- if companies are interested in investing money now to reap savings later. But many executives insist that scientists have not absolutely proved that significant global warming will occur. While that's true, the evidence was enough to persuade dozens of nations to sign the Rio treaty. Clinton is counting on industry to accept that even if climate change is not a certainty, it's smart to buy some insurance against disaster...
...make in recycling, but from their viewpoint, the policy could have been worse. The President could have forbidden government purchases of paper whitened by chlorine bleach. Environmentalists charge that chlorine-containing waste chemicals contaminate waterways around paper mills; companies say the pollution is limited. While Clinton did not insist on chlorine-free paper, he did relax the whiteness standard for federal stationery. Companies that offer not-so-bright but eco-friendly paper may find some big customers in Washington...
...smut-filled condemnation of homosexuality two years ago, Mansfield's assault does not merit forceful rebuttal. What made the Peninsula issue so sinister was, first, that it shrouded its hateful bigotry in scientific, psychological, theological and philosophical arguments; and, second, that the issue's authors had the gall to insist they were motivated by the humanistic desire to help homosexuals see the error of their ways...
...NAFTA's fate next month will probably turn on 20 votes among Congressmen from Florida and Louisiana, who insist that sugar and citrus producers in their districts should continue to be protected from free-market competition, and that U.S. consumers should be protected from buying less-expensive Mexican imports. The treaty provides for a 15-year adjustment period on sugar imports, but it also allows the Mexicans to export sugar freely after seven years if that nation has a surplus. Sugar-state lawmakers are worried that the Mexicans will substitute corn syrup and other sweeteners for domestic use and divert...