Word: resistance
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...consequence of this most recent fixation--the extinction of people who eat without prior examination. Eating, one of life's greatest activities, is becoming more of a burden than a pleasure. One cannot escape the tendency to read the nutritional content on the back of food packages. One cannot resist asking whether the muffins are regular, low-fat or fat-free. One cannot help but pat a slice of pizza with a napkin. In short, one cannot eat without some efforts at fat reduction, without worrying. The result is that eating fat-free and eating care-free are mutually exclusive...
...East Village, she is only 25 years old but has already managed to found her own record company (the not altogether ironically titled Righteous Babe Records), to release eight solo records (with total sales of more than 300,000) and, over the course of six years or so, to resist the entreaties of all the major-label suits who have sent letters, faxes and E-mail her way in their efforts to sign her. DiFranco says her label "started out as kind of a joke," but she now believes "the interests of big businesses are just fundamentally contradictory...
...reaches out to the students, however, Riley is also preparing to launch a major internal reorganization this fall, one which, sources say, members of the security guard unit and the department's senior sergeants and lieutenants might resist...
These speculations gain currency almost daily as Yeltsin reaches for ever more apocalyptic "red scare" metaphors. When the President says, "I cannot let the forces of the past come to power; I will resist their comeback in every way," his aides nod in agreement. "I know what it would mean for your Western view of democracy," says Georgi Satarov, a top Yeltsin aide. "But if there were a chance that Hitler would come to power in America by winning an election, wouldn't you be wondering if it wasn't right to stop that...
...have the highest respect for the extracurriculars here at Harvard and acknowledge that participation by students in them is an essential part of their educations. Yet to resist curricular reforms because of the impact on extracurriculars is to have the tail wag the dog. Harvard's world-class reputation is not built on its extracurricular activities, however wonderful some of them may be. Nor, I suspect, do most students come here because of them. In considering curricular reform we must leave students time for a life, but we must also demand that they be students first and athletes, musicians, debaters...