Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major career decision for celebrities at the moment is not whether to sell out but which cola to endorse when they do. In the latest episode of their unending battle to top each other, Coca-Cola and Pepsi are offering fees that almost no one can resist. Last week Pepsi announced that the Material Girl, Madonna, has signed up for a one-year global advertising campaign (her estimated fee: almost $10 million). The title song from the singer's new album, Like a Prayer, will debut in March on Pepsi's prime-time television commercials. Pepsi's team has already...
Administration critics charge that another Bush appointee, Tower, will resist military cutbacks essential for an arms control agreement. Some have charged that Tower, who served as a consultant to defense contractors after retiring as chair of the Senate's armed services committee, has ties to the weapons industry that might impair his judgment...
...currently cooking on Billboard's Top Pop Albums, and the first single, Spy in the House of Love, hit the No. 1 position on the dance chart. The band has been a smash in Europe, but until the release of What Up, Dog?, America seemed to resist its charms. "We had a hip cachet in Europe," says David, the band's co- founder and lyrics writer. "In America we were has-beens." David puts the band's long history together with its newfound fortune and reckons, "If we have a hit album this time, it will work...
...Israel accepted a U.N. plan to partition Palestine, which would make an Arab state out of a much larger area than is now encompassed by the occupied territories. The Palestinians fought the partition; according to U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie, "the Arabs repeatedly had asserted that they would resist partition by force." A Palestinian spokesperson called the partition "a line of fire and blood...
Neither Reagan nor Caspar Weinberger could resist any of the overpriced hardware offered them over the past eight years. The gains from such spending have been marginal. Now, indisputably, we are the most powerful military force in the hemisphere--ask any Grenadan...