Word: resisted
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...fair. To a retiree earning $25,000 or $50,000 or $100,000 from investments, the extra tax would sting, but it wouldn't bite. And it too would raise about $5 billion in new revenue. Congressman Claude Pepper and the mighty American Association of Retired Persons should resist the urge to fight this if they really want to do right by their constituents -- and their constituents' grandchildren...
...Hilton chains each have reservation numbers that spell their names. An official from the 143-hotel Hyatt chain, who was searching for numbers with significance, not long ago dialed CHECK-IN to see who had the listing. After some negotiations, Hyatt made the Oscars an offer they could not resist: $40,000 cash, $5,000 in credit toward hotel visits and $2,000 to print brochures with Oscarvision's new, more fitting number: PLAY...
...that California voters could bypass a state legislature controlled by self- interested businessmen. This year, however, all but two of the state's 29 initiatives were sponsored by special interests, which spent a record $130 million. Yet Johnson would have been pleased by the public's ability to resist high-powered persuasion. The insurance industry spent $75 million backing four contradictory and confusing auto-insurance referendums. All were defeated, and a consumer initiative calling for deep cuts in auto, home and $ commercial insurance rates seemed close enough to ensure a recount. But Proposition 19, which proposed a 25 cents...
...terrorist by the British. De Gaulle was called a terrorist by the Nazis. What can they say about the P.L.O., except to repeat this slogan? We are freedom fighters, and we are proud of it. According to international law and the United Nations Charter, I have the right to resist Israeli occupation. I don't want to harm anybody. But look how they are treating my people. These savage, barbarian, fascist practices against our children, our women...
...walked past the dark wood bar and saw an empty table next to a sailor and his date. We couldn't resist. Madonna's "Lucky Star" played in the background, interrupted periodically by annoying calls of "John Smith, party of three...