Word: resisted
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...pass unnoticed by GM competitors Ford and Chrysler. While they still offer fully paid health-care plans to their employees, both companies are similarly groaning under the burden of escalating health costs. The changes also set the stage for a battle next year with the U.A.W., which will resist any effort to shift health costs to its members. Says Don Douglas, president of U.A.W. Local 594 in Pontiac, Michigan: "There's no doubt it's going to be a major issue in next year's negotiations...
...here, in this convention-mad city, even the locals couldn't resist missing the grand old party in the Astrodome, even if the only way in was to volunteer as an usher...
...June, when several senior staffers complained directly to the candidate about Thomases' tendency to meddle in areas like polling that were far outside her formal role as Hillary's staff director. The ultimate resolution was Thomases' new job as the campaign's internal Dr. No -- the final authority to resist demands on Bill Clinton's time. In a larger shift, campaign chairman Mickey Kantor was in effect kicked upstairs to handle long-term planning on such contingencies as a Clinton-Gore transition as well as handholding the egos of Democratic powers...
...clear policy on how to manage the dangerous separatist wave sweeping the world. The Clinton camp's critique is mainly hindsight: Bill wouldn't have held on to the sanctity of Yugoslav unity so long, Bill wouldn't have signaled Serbia that the U.S. would not resist its aggression as the Bush Administration did, Bill would have acted sooner on humanitarian relief...
...duiker every two days, arguing that such brief hunts would in no way affect the forest. Since then, however, he has realized that conservationists should not introduce hunting where animals have never learned to fear humans. Moreover, only if there is a total ban on hunting will the Pygmies resist the temptation to exploit this immensely productive ecosystem...