Word: resistance
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Both teams found that within two weeks, all of the AIDS virus in the body were mutated to resist the drug. From this, the researchers were able to calculate that 100 million to one billion new virus particles are produced every...
...House. And the vast, multimillion-dollar network of political and charitable organizations that he has built to spread his gospel could be a difficult target to defend. All of them draw their financial support from overlapping groups of business executives and other wealthy supporters whose identities Gingrich has resisted disclosing until recently. The donors range from restaurant and bar operators to the owners of vast mail-order operations. They will now be looking to the Republican Congress to stave off a hike in the minimum wage, resist health-insurance mandates and block any ideas to shift taxes from income...
...human nature to resist change, to prefer consistency over tumult. Name changes are not so much in our distant past; in 1984, South House became Cabot House, and residents there adjusted to it without the militant-sounding statements that are flying out of Pforzheimer...
Perhaps the Undergraduate Council could hold a pep rally with weapons as door prizes. We cannot resist nominating the newly-proposed John Harvard pilgrim mascot for target practice...
...will not be easy for any Washington politician, including the newly incumbent, to break free of the capital's grip. Even Andrew Jackson couldn't resist the privileges of power. After his people had trashed the White House, he retained three servants who had worked for his elitist predecessor -- a French chef, a steward and a butler -- and began serving the finest clarets at dinner. He also hired a painter, who promptly began immortalizing his subject in heroic oil portraits. The rest is history...