Word: resistance
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...acknowledges. She jilts him repeatedly - summoning him to New York and then reneging on her offer of a place to stay, or forcing him to eat half the cost of a set of paintings he purchased at her behest. Yet Ciccone is unable - or unwilling - to resist her magnetism. They are no longer close - but that may be as much her choice...
...Sadr. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki launched the campaign last month under the banner of "imposing the law" and wresting control away from militias operating "outside the law." Similar campaigns in Basra, the chaotic port 100 miles away, and Sadr City, the huge Baghdad slum, initially met fierce resistance from al-Sadr's followers, but the cleric ordered his fighters to stand down in the Amara operation, allowing it to proceed peacefully. "The previous operation that happened in Basra really hurt the fighters," Harbia says. "Now they prefer to flee rather than to resist...
...making her an exception among her college and high school friends, who often remain in the South), she retains the smiling, friendly demeanor so characteristic of her native region. As our barely older intern coordinator, she dances the line between protective and authoritative—still unable to resist updates on the inevitable intern gossip and drama. Like many of us, she does not hesitate to tell P.D. exactly when he's being ridiculous. Though at times this causes her to slip from her place of authority, I frankly prefer it and am glad she hasn't lost her youthful...
...tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.'" Americans risked a similar fate, Kennedy warned, "if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress ... Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future...
...research becomes more advanced, the Hagermans hope that more people with suspicious symptoms will choose to be tested for the fragile X mutation and premutation. Many families with an autistic child resist, not wanting to learn that the cause is genetic, but Paul Hagerman urges them to look at things another way. The day is rapidly approaching, he believes, when autism caused by fragile X will be known as the "treatable type...