Word: resistance
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Indian restaurants here offer some lunch deals that are difficult to resist...
...that Spalding Gray didn't want to work on his novel, the MONSTER IN A BOX of this well-filmed monologue. It's that he can't resist interruption. So he totes the manuscript with him to Los Angeles (surviving earthquakes and agents), on a fact-finding mission to Nicaragua (seeing one of his party go mad) and to Moscow (enduring an unaccountable vodka shortage). He also deals with aids anxiety and other distractions. Ironic and self-deprecating (his own description), he's neither wildly comic nor deeply dramatic. He's more like a good dinner-table talker, an agreeable...
WEBER: Let me make clear that even though I think divided government is a very serious problem, we desperately need an agenda-setting campaign. The Bush people ought to resist the temptation to have just a symbolic or gimmicky campaign -- Willie Horton or something like that...
...semester continued and theadministration continued to resist change, theprotests became more angry and more provocative...
...Wildlife Refuge. His pro-business credentials were impeccable: he would fend off any serious challenge to sweetheart deals on public lands for oil, mining, timber and ranching interests. And though he had so little interest in Interior's affairs that he at first declined the job, he could not resist a personal appeal from Bush...