Word: insist
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Such embarrassments have reinforced the view of many within Greenpeace that the organization needs to go beyond the headline-grabbing stunts and start offering solutions. Confrontation, they insist, must give way to cooperation. Those would have been fighting words to the ragged band of hippies and tree huggers who founded Greenpeace in the late '60s. But times have changed. Today Greenpeace boasts 3.1 million dues-paying members, a $140 million budget, 1,000 full-time staff members, 43 offices worldwide and a fleet of oceangoing vessels. More and more, it has come to resemble the very corporate giants that have...
...company be just too darned big? Trustbusters and federal judges have often said so. But for the chief executive of a corporate colossus to agree sounds contrary to nature. And for said chief to insist, entirely voluntarily, on busting up his own company into three pieces--well, only last week did the idea change from unheard of to heard of once. In laconic tones, chairman Robert Allen announced at a Manhattan press conference that he had persuaded the AT&T board to break the company into three independent corporations. It will be the biggest corporate split-up ever, as measured...
George would be somewhat more innocuous if it did not insist on taking itself seriously. "We believe," writes Kennedy, "that if we can make politics accessible by covering it in an entertaining and compelling way, popular interest and involvement in the process will follow," it is hard to imagine that the voyeuristic politics that John, Jr. endorses could ever promote civic virtue. If it accomplishes anything at all, George will convert those who are ironic abut politics to the politics of irony...
Enthusiasts insist that science as yet lacks the tools to properly assess homeopathy and that its effectiveness should be taken on trust. "If you don't have faith in the healing, it won't work," says Kyra Walsh, owner of Walsh Homeopathics in Evanston, Illinois. "Belief is a part of the process...
...reports did not trigger such notification, though some employees suggest that, after the problems in 1992, further security breaches might have been considered too embarrassing for the library. Billington still says he is not convinced the damage is as extensive as some believe. Then, too, some managers continue to insist that Maceda has blown the matter out of proportion, that she has a history of problems on the job, and a few have told her that they suspect she may have been involved in some of the book mutilations. Maceda is unfazed by these accusations, offering to take...