Word: resistance
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...watch modern 3-D TVs remains bulky - and, well, ugly - but Luxottica, maker of Ray-Ban, is working on a solution for that. The company plans to release 3-D glasses modeled after Ray-Ban's classic Wayfarer shades, giving even the style-concious enthusiast little reason to resist...
...refuses to loosen his grip. Even his most immature moments—yelling at his mother for interrupting his 15 seconds of radio fame, scarfing down Chinese food and Mountain Dew until his head aches—act as part of a system Paul has developed for himself to resist his increasingly evident lack of a career or family. On a boring night out with friend and fellow Giants fanatic Sal (Kevin Corrigan), Paul happens to run into Quantrell Bishop at a nightclub. The conversation takes a turn for the worse and Paul ends up brutally beaten by Bishop...
There is also a much more basic explanation for why insurance doesn't sell. Insurance has proved its worth for centuries, but people still resist it. They don't like thinking about the possibility of bad things happening. That's why car insurance is mandatory--and health insurance may soon be. If supposedly financially sophisticated Americans have to be coerced to buy insurance, should we really expect people in less rich countries to be any different...
...relieved and encouraged by this progress in the investigation, but, of course, we must resist the temptation to rush to judgment until a full and fair prosecution of this case brings a just resolution." - Yale president Richard Levin, in a statement to the Yale community about Clark's arrest, Sept...
...What can be done now? The military will want more troops to paper over its strategic mistake. It will resist any suggestion to leave Helmand and redeploy to Kandahar. "That would be a death sentence for all the people in Helmand who have supported us," a military expert told me. It is a compelling argument but, ultimately, a flawed one; death sentences are being delivered every night in Kandahar. And remember the military's poky timetable: "We are trying to decide now how to redeploy the troops we already have in Afghanistan, the units that provided the security...