Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican lineup does not change much, congressional observers expect the outlook of both chambers to shift considerably to the right. Many Democrats, including liberals, have tried to keep pace with the conservative tide in the electorate. In addition, some prominent liberals may be defeated. Thus the next Congress may resist new spending programs, except on defense, and be more willing to strengthen agencies like...
...Lowell's audience found it impossible to resist a literal interpretation of these poems; they saw the sister of the president of Harvard cavorting nude with female amorists in bathtubs and swimming pools. What the Bostonian intended as harmless and playful looked lewd and lascivious, as though she were flaunting her nude figure and amorous desires in the faces of her beholders...seeing this unexpectedly large woman stand upon a stage reciting verse of this nature, and knowing at the same time that she was a Lowell, was enough to knock the stuffing out of any self-respecting crowd...
...mood could not have been more warlike. At the militant exhortations of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the whole country rallied enthusiastically behind the government. Huddled in the dim light of candles during a blackout, Iranians listened over their radios to the 80-year-old revolutionary leader implore them to "resist with dignity and courage" and fight until the "infidels" had been driven not only from Iran but also from Iraq. When Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat showed up on a self-appointed mediation mission, Khomeini refused even to see him. And when Cuban President Fidel Castro sent a message...
...Thurow's analysis, the Government is largely responsible for the economic malaise because it cannot or will not resist growing demands by Americans for a risk-free society. Workers want guaranteed jobs with high salaries, and bosses want certain profits. Argues Thurow: "We have tried to combine economic progress with economic security. Everyone wants both, but everyone cannot have both." The result has been an undynamic economy with sluggish growth and chronically high inflation...
Robbins has conceived passage after passage of insights like this, most of them capped off by similes that reel under the weight of overwriting. Unable to resist the opportunity to sneak in a comparison wherever it will or will not fit, Robbins allows himself to write these words: "Leigh-Cheri took a swig from the bottle.... She felt as if she were Saturday night television and there were an orchestra up her nose...