Word: resistance
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...signed a contract, agreeing not to disclose to anyone the contents of their respective packages until the year 2000. All of the artists save Ryman sent their boxes back to Antonakos without touching the exteriors, which were loosely painted with a white wash. Ryman, true to form, could not resist the aesthetic qualities of his monochrome box, so he covered it with masking tape and then varnished it; the tape has since yellowed, but unevenly, giving the surface the same graceful subtlety of his characteristic white painted canvases...
Wilson called a timeout to focus the Crimson on winning the third game and extending the match. But Harvard was unable to resist the Roger Williams onslaught and eventually succumbed to the Hawks, 15-13, in the third and final game...
According to College administrators, other departments seem to resist change...
...increase production. The announcement by Venezuela, Mexico and Saudi Arabia appeared to be both a concession to the Clinton administration - U.S. energy secretary Bill Richardson spent the better part of the past month imploring oil-producing nations to increase production - and a concession to market pressures (who can resist selling oil when prices are so high...
...Maybe it's because I missed "Dawson's Creek"--the only thing that can possibly temper my spirits.) So what prompted such drastic disillusionment? A couple nights ago, I, like most of you--found myself entranced by "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire." I mean, how could anyone resist? It actually should have been called "Who Wants to Be a Prostitute"--girls agree to sell their souls and body for the money of an anonymous millionaire (all we know about him is he's old, rich and quite desperate). Tasteless, tacky, totally trashy--but also semi-entertaining and amusing...