Word: insist
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While most national firms say they provide about eight hours of basic training (mostly showing films) for unarmed guards, Wackenhut, the third largest guard vendor, boasts that its minimum has been 16 hours since the 1970s. Yet two former executives who recently left the firm insist that the real figure was far lower. "Four hours was pretty much it," says Frank Bisogno, who ran Wackenhut's New York City office until he left in 1989. "If you were required by the customer, you would do more. But if the manager could avoid expending a nonbillable cost such as that...
Officials at the fisheries service insist that the recovery plan will spread the burden among all the divergent interests, but a power struggle is already under way. "Fish advocates" blame the Army Corps of Engineers, which runs the dams, for not assuming responsibility for the diminished salmon runs. Idaho farmers, on the other hand, want to protect their water-guzzling crops. Meanwhile, four Native American tribes are sure to go to court if their rights to half of all fish in the Columbia River basin are taken away...
...committee has interviewed 10 candidates with Jewell present, and its members insist that the faculty has noted the concerns expressed by students...
...Gomes' novel teachings might have on those in the University community who are confronted with vitally important--perhaps eternally important--moral decisions about themselves and the way they will choose to live their lives. Gomes has no advice to offer such people except that they should "define" themselves, and insist upon those self-definitions in relation to others." We grant Gomes that this kind of exhortation to a "self-defined" life has a long tradition. Indeed, it may fairly be said that Adam and Eve were the first to take...
...necessary to insist upon a literalistic interpretation of Scripture to see the moral law apparent in the natural order; nor is it necessary to split fine theological hairs to appreciate the importance of this moral issue to fundamental doctrines regarding creation and redemption upon which the Churches of Eastern, Roman and reformed Christendom have always been agreed...