Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well aware that alumni often are viewed as meddlers with skewed senses of priorities. Some suggest that we tend to resist change. Yet these critics ignore the fact that alumni have adjusted well to the forward pass, which is now cause of only occasional grumbling at Yale Game tailgates. But with these schedule changes, the administration is pushing...
...division, and other plant biologists around the globe are all too aware that the world's burgeoning population is ultimately dependent on plants for food. Their solution: to lend nature a hand by 1) finding or creating new plants that yield more food faster, harvest easier and better resist insects, diseases and climatic extremes or 2) by manipulating existing plants into more efficient food production...
Part of Ford's failure to appear more presidential derives from his apparent inability to resist traditional barnstorming. Voters see him as campaigner often, as President only rarely. Not since Feb. 17 has he held a press conference in Washington, where the White House provides a setting still held in awe by millions of Americans. Instead, the President has opted for local press conferences, where he appears no more presidential than any other candidate...
...Forest City, Iowa, Johnny and Bonnie Nelson feel they have the right to resist the claim of Doan Thi Hoang Ann, who lives in Great Falls, Mont.; she insists she is the mother of the fouryear-old Vietnamese child they call Ben. Says Mrs. Nelson: "At first I was trying to look at it as if I were in her shoes. But we couldn't just give him away to someone claiming to be his mother without any proof." When both sides went into court over Ben, Mrs. Nelson decided, "If he reacted to her in a loving...
...spring exhibition that opens this week at New York's Japan House Gallery. It consists of 43 elaborate Edo-period kimono, chosen from 11,000 examples from Japan's foremost private collection. Almost all the techniques of kimono making - especially the two major ones, tie-dyeing and resist-dyeing - are on view in examples of the highest quality (see color...