Word: insists
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...advocates insist that just knowing they could get caught is enough to make teens more vigilant. The biggest deterrent may be the stories of kids like Loren Wells. That's why, besides pushing his state to adopt a stricter graduated licensing law, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge is taking an extra precaution. "I cut out the articles about those girls," says Ridge. "And I've saved them to remind my own children down the road...
Today all funding agencies--certainly including the NIH, which led the way--insist on the detailed documented findings of such committees before they will even read a grant application in the field of clinical investigation...
Though the state has been shifting toward making bilingual educational optional, all of the candidates insist on maintaining these programs in Somerville...
...creators of the Teletubbies point out that Tinky Winky's "purse" is actually a "magic bag" and insist that no political message is intended by his complexion or the shape of his antenna. No matter. We see through these feeble excuses and applaud Reverend Falwell for exposing this great threat to our nation's youth...
...French are aware that a problem exists. So, significantly, are the English. The Times of London responded to the Figaro statistics with the headline IT'S TRUE: THE FRENCH REALLY ARE THE SMELLIEST IN EUROPE. But are they? I know people, some of them holders of British passports, who insist that upper-class English are the filthiest people on earth. In England, there's an old story about the astounded response of the president of an Oxford college whose students, in a past less distant than you may think, asked for the installation of bathtubs: "Bathtubs! Bathtubs! These people...