Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With cheating so easy, one might wonder how anyone can resist. To some extent, fear keeps students honest. I have had professors specifically state that my assignments in Computer Science classes will be examined for unusual duplication of other students' answers. I don't find this surprising in light of the cheating scandal in an introductory computer science class that rocked MIT a few years ago. If caught, punishment is harsh and the blemish irreparable...
...after 14 hours of debate, NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner, who left a sickbed against his doctors' orders to preside, enthused that its vote marked "a decisive moment in the history of our alliance." So it was, though a somewhat ironic one. NATO was formed 45 years ago to resist any Soviet Bloc invasion of Western Europe, but its first shots fired in anger, if any are, will be a pre-emptive, not a defensive, act against antagonists having nothing to do with a Soviet empire that no longer exists. A NATO diplomat says the ministers in Brussels never even...
...sorry. We couldn't resist. We feel a public obligation, a duty to both our readers and to the Harvard community, to speak out on the most pressing and important issue of our time...
...that in no way pose any real threat to their health. However, Cucci describes the horrors of fat and weight gain in a manner more suitable for a Puritan diatribe against sin than a rational plan for greater fitness. He presents overeating as a "temptation" that the strong can resist but through which the weak snack their way to their eventual "self-destruction." Those who eat therefore lack discipline and control and need to be saved from their own cravings...
When Boris Yeltsin's 63rd birthday rolled around last Tuesday, a reporter was unable to resist asking Victor Chernomyrdin whether he had sprung any special surprises on his boss. "We presented him with a huge bouquet of flowers," Chernomyrdin solemnly intoned. "We doubt if he received a bigger one from anyone else. We knew we couldn't allow this. Ours was the best...