Word: resistance
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Sensitive to the charge that he has become a promise-them-anything candidate, Clinton last week returned to using some tough-talk words like "responsibility," telling the University of New Mexico students, "No more across-the-board something for nothing." But too often Clinton cannot resist the temptation to gull his audiences with the illusion that the path to painless prosperity can be paved solely with the savings from defense cuts...
...Gabe and Judy and their best friends Jack (Sydney Pollack) and Sally (Judy Davis). Each is in some stage of a mid-love crisis; each married partner is given the chance to follow a flirtation to climax or catastrophe. Typically, Allen deals himself the highest cards. Gabe alone can resist temptation and take himself "out of the race. I don't want to hurt anybody or be hurt...
...tend to emphasize low-cost preventive treatment, make one-third to one-half the money earned by specialists, who can charge top dollar for their high-tech procedures. For a newly minted doctor who leaves medical school with an average debt of $50,000, it is hard to resist the appeal of a lucrative specialty. Another disincentive to primary care is the long and unpredictable hours -- especially in rural areas where a doctor may be the only physician for miles around...
...pass unnoticed by GM competitors Ford and Chrysler. While they still offer fully paid health-care plans to their employees, both companies are similarly groaning under the burden of escalating health costs. The changes also set the stage for a battle next year with the U.A.W., which will resist any effort to shift health costs to its members. Says Don Douglas, president of U.A.W. Local 594 in Pontiac, Michigan: "There's no doubt it's going to be a major issue in next year's negotiations...
...here, in this convention-mad city, even the locals couldn't resist missing the grand old party in the Astrodome, even if the only way in was to volunteer as an usher...