Word: insists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stuffed toy, a pair of binoculars, shoes, an electric blanket, a horse's saddle. Agents even admit to dropping snooping devices into a confessional at a Roman Catholic church frequented by mobsters, as well as a church candlestick holder and a church men's room. All this, agents insist, was done with court permission...
...private business, opponents of testing insist that mass urinalysis is an unwarranted invasion of the privacy of people who have done nothing wrong. To prevent switching or doctoring of urine samples, a supervisor must watch closely while the specimen is being passed. Even worse, it is widely estimated that some of the cheap tests now in use yield up to 20% "false positives," raising the threat that many people who do not use drugs will nonetheless be denied employment -- while drug users who manage to stay clean for a few days before a test beat the system. Advocates of testing...
...long, complex and frequently frustrating process. There are disputes about the best methods. For example, some programs use chemicals in the first stage to ease the crash of a cocaine addict coming down and stimulate the production of natural brain chemicals depleted by the drug. Managers of other programs insist the goal should be to get abusers off % dependence on any kind of chemical right away...
...want to know what their interests are, and then work for both our interests," Fisher said. "We tend to insist that we are always right and the Russians are always wrong. It's very hard to have a working relationship with anyone this way. It's like saying 'I'm always right and you're always wrong and now let's talk about...
While 350th organizers insist they have no reason to believe that Reagan objected to the degree decision, the circumstances surrounding the President's rejection of Harvard's invitiation suggest otherwise...