Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Germans routinely refer to their employer as der Boss, who is expected to be a good Manager. "American English is definitely the model, not English--this is what we see looking through French advertising," says Micheline Faure, organizing secretary of a Paris group called AGULF, which was formed to resist the linguistic invasion. Japanese ads, posters and shopping bags are full of a special kind of American English, often starting with an enthusiastic "Let's," as in "Let's hiking...
...number of countries, traditionalists stoutly resist the American invasion, which they deplore as "cultural imperialism." France's AGULF has spent the past nine years suing organizations that violate France's law against the commercial use of foreign terms. It has had small fines imposed on about 40 defendants, including the Paris Opera and TWA (for issuing English-language boarding cards...
...opposition, California Democrat Alan Cranston criticized the Saudis for their unwillingness to make peace with Israel and for subsidizing "terrorists," meaning Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Though he acknowledged that Washington and Riyadh have some mutual interests, Cranston argued, "The Saudi princes don't pump oil or resist Marxism just to do us a favor. They'd do it anyway...
...proclaimed of pop in 1968. "Therefore no concessions should be made to it." Sorry. Concessions were made. "By the late 1960s," writes Princeton Scholar Louis Menand, "popular culture had permeated every aspect of life with an inexorability that was beyond the powers of any sort of intellectual antagonism to resist...
...neighborhood that dangerous doings are taking place nearby without due process of environmental law. In hot pursuit of the security leak, the Feds apply a very broad mop to the drips, insisting that the idealists are terrorists, thus gaining an informal license to kill. Yet even here Brickman cannot resist his best impulses; he makes his villain (the subtle John Mahoney) more a man befuddled under pressure than evil incarnate. And he permits Mathewson to evolve from absentminded professor into a hero who is morally all present and accounted...