Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge school committee members focus their efforts on a rational review of policy issues. They resist the temptation to get bogged down in personalities-or the quick-fix school reform proposals trumpeted by ambitious states and national politicians," continues the report by the NEA, which is the nation's largest teachers' union...
...business for his law firm, Hynes was quoted in the Chicago Sun Times suggesting that Vrdolyak had met with a Mafia boss. Vrdolyak sued for libel and accused Hynes of being a "liar and a sleaze." Even Washington, who leads Hynes by 35% and Vrdolyak by 39%, could not resist stooping for a shot at his longtime enemy Vrdolyak. Said the mayor: "He's slime...
...will take great sifting and discipline. The recent congressional override of Reagan's veto of the clean-water bill suggested hearts in the right place (the public considers clean water a necessity, not a luxury, and is willing to sacrifice for it) but minds not yet tough enough to resist temptation (the bill was a nice display of logrolling...
...came to Figlow that it was a joke. The Sunlight Man had no intention of shooting him. He had come to give up, broken by grief, but in the madness of his trickster vanity or maybe just human vanity he could not resist one final laugh at the childish cruelty of man, one last indifferent or partly indifferent sneer, or maybe one final ridiculous pretense that he was still indifferent, still had dignity. By the time the joke came clear, it was too late. Figlow had shot him through the heart...
...more babies than he could find any honorable use for. This is Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson), the Unfinished- Furniture King of the Southwest and sire of Harry, Barry, Larry, Garry and Nathan Jr., the famous Arizona quints. It is a temptation no child-hungry couple could resist. They should have, though. For the McDonnoughs are soon furiously pursued by their gooney neighbors Dot and Glen (Frances McDormand and Sam McMurray) and their marauding kids, two fugitive brothers named Gale (John Goodman) and Evelle (William Forsythe), and a bounty hunter (Randall (("Tex")) Cobb) who roars out of Hi's dreams...