Word: resistance
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...fight, their legal help could have advised differently. The DeBoers should have relinquished Jessica immediately, argues Beverly Hills lawyer David Leavitt, one of the country's pre-eminent adoption lawyers: "Any good adoption lawyer understands that if a birth mother changes her mind within a few weeks, and you resist, you're in for terrible grief...
...June, Kimberly found a court that agreed. If a minor in Florida can choose abortion, ruled circuit court judge Stephen Dakan, "then surely a minor child has the right to assert a constitutional privilege to resist an attempt to remove her from the only home she has known . . . and declare her the child of strangers." In August, he will decide on visitation rights for the Twiggs. If all goes as planned, the legal maneuvering will be over by the time Kimberly starts the ninth grade. Says Kimberly: "I want my life back -- the way it was before the Twiggs...
...settled on NCR Corp. AT&T first approached the Ohio-based manufacturer in 1988, but retreated after it was spurned by NCR management. Two years later, AT&T made another bid for NCR, but this time it was a $7.5 billion hostile takeover offer that the company could not resist. AT&T folded most of its money-losing computer operations into NCR, but the real appeal to AT&T was the potential for linking its own long-distance telephone system to NCR's worldwide network of cash registers and ATMs...
Still, the hospitals also each have proud histories from eras gone by. "These are very old, very strong, very established institutions," Kay said. Individual departments, and department chairs, within each hospital would likely resist being shut down as part of some cost-cutting plan...
Fired two weeks ago, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont promised to go quietly. But the ousted official couldn't resist a 20-minute harangue in the House of Commons. As a stony-faced Prime Minister John Major listened, Lamont charged that without more clearly defined goals, his party's government "will not survive and will not deserve to survive." The last time an ex-Exchequer Chancellor (Geoffrey Howe) attacked the boss (Margaret Thatcher), the government did indeed fall...