Word: resistance
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...Second, dramatic political activity is exciting: It's hard to top the thrill of meeting people, arguing with them and persuading them. Finally, we can't say no to television. Look at the success of home video shows. Look at the video coups of ACT-UP. We can't resist the power that comes from controlling television...
Fortunately de Klerk's gamble paid off, but the considerable doubt, even at a late stage in the polling, as to the outcome, attests to the strength of the bury-you-head-in-the-sand mentality that had allowed white South Africans to resist outside pressures for reform for so long...
...anything. Mitterrand, at 75 and after nearly 11 years in power, has become an august, remote figure (he is sometimes sarcastically called Dieu, or God) and has seemed at times to lose his touch in foreign affairs, to the detriment of French influence. For example, he tried to resist German unification after the Berlin Wall fell...
...impact on police egos, however. Navarro, the Broward County sheriff, has become something of a celebrity from his appearances on Cops; he has been criticized in the local media for taking too many trips to promote the show. The lure of Hollywood money is also hard for cops to resist. In Florida's "Damsel of Death" case, in which Aileen Wuornos was accused of killing seven men who picked her up on the highway, three police investigators reportedly made an arrangement with Wuornos' lesbian lover to share in a TV-movie deal even before the case came to trial. When...
...Maybe I just don't have the knack to keep the old alive anymore and to resist some of these changes," says Heimert, who has chaired the History department, English department, and the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature. "In a way, I felt I was in a situation where I was spending most of my time trying to fight off what I thought were bad things instead of being able to concentrate my energies on what I thought was good...