Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bell said he intends his protest to "resist a return to that narrow vision of academic worth that for so long limited this faculty to white males from upper-class backrounds...
...work -- a masterpiece of idiomatic American moviemaking as well as a plangent commentary on its traditions -- will be spared from the literalists, complaining both that the gore is too real and that the characters are not real enough. Protect them as well from the wrath of the traditionalists, who resist the intrusion of originality on their passion for the endless restatement of stale generic conventions. Deliver them instead to the audience that will be galvanized, as the filmmakers were, by the chance to reimagine all the cliches of crime fiction...
...productive talks at the three-day session. The No. 1 worry for the seven leaders is the rising potential for global recession along with a painful end to five years of sustained economic growth. To help prolong that expansion, the leaders must try to make stronger commitment to resist the lure of protectionism, which is beginning to cast a dangerous pall over world trade. Another summit priority will be taking further steps to ease the international debt crisis, which is simmering once again with the decision by Citicorp and other big U.S. banks to set aside billions of dollars...
...issue of what global commitments it is willing to make has caused the U.S. to squirm ever since its disastrous involvement in Viet Nam. Each succeeding tragedy involving American lives twitches a neo-isolationist nerve. The lesson of Viet Nam, many argue, is that the U.S. should resist the urge to send troops blundering into explosive regions where they are destined to be snared in regional quarrels and nationalist conflicts. Vague, lofty notions of maintaining an American empire are not worth the loss of our soldiers' lives...
During his six years in office, Ronald Reagan, with a strategic doctrine based on his rhetoric about "standing tall," has readily deployed American military might near trouble spots around the world. He is certain to resist any attempts to scale back the U.S. presence in the gulf. Said the President last week: "As we grieve the loss of our brave sons, let no one doubt our resolve to protect our vital interests in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else...