Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas, 'Keep on doing what you're doing to me, because I like what you're doing to me!'" He admitted that he had been disappointed a few times, but allowed: "You never get everything you want." On the other hand, he could not resist adding, "If Hubert and I were up there representing the House and the Senate, we would get them together in five minutes...
...Sworn to Resist. At present, all solutions to New York's newspaper battles seem very distant. The publishers remain hopelessly split in their thinking; during negotiations they could scarcely agree even on routine matters. The ten craft unions are also snarling at one another. The skilled unions-Printers, Photoen-gravers, Machinists-are beginning to balk at across-the-board wage increases; they want percentage increases that would bring them more money. The unskilled-Mailers, Deliverers, Paper Handlers-on the other hand, want to stick to flat-sum increases, which, at their lower pay rates, would mean more money...
Keppel sees the function of the Office of Education as that of a stimulator for improvement at the local school level, a leader in the search for the right goals in education. He contends that educators too often resist change; somehow, he says, they feel that "a voice for change is a voice against education." Partly for that reason, Keppel works hard to get businessmen, politicians, scientists and other thinkers involved in education's problems. "Education," he says, "is too important to be left solely to the educators...
...Minister for Foreign Trade, Horst Sölle, is 41, and many plant managers are now between 25 and 40. While such men are sometimes critical of the East German economy, what they fault is not the totalitarian system, but the old, open-collared party hacks who resist change. Says Kurt Leopold, West Germany's former chief trade negotiator with East Germany: "The younger generation is conspicuously pressing for reform. The older party officials hate them but are powerless to stop the trend...
...from the scientific community which spawned him and from the ultraromantics whose experiences he has shared. "Nobody believes us when we say we're hard-headed scientists, and the hipsters are put off by the quantitative metaphors we're developing." In spite of his pretensions, however, Leary can't resist an occasional dig at establishment science. "We can't sit around and wait until foundation-sponsored research gets around to solving our spiritual, sexual, and intellectual hang-ups," he says. He believes that the solutions to all man's problems depend upon a deeper understanding of consciousness, which in turn...