Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fortunately de Klerk's gamble paid off, but the considerable doubt, even at a late stage in the polling, as to the outcome, attests to the strength of the bury-you-head-in-the-sand mentality that had allowed white South Africans to resist outside pressures for reform for so long...
...Maybe I just don't have the knack to keep the old alive anymore and to resist some of these changes," says Heimert, who has chaired the History department, English department, and the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature. "In a way, I felt I was in a situation where I was spending most of my time trying to fight off what I thought were bad things instead of being able to concentrate my energies on what I thought was good...
...elections also inspire some millennial attitudes; despite our cynicism about our politicians, we can't quite resist the sneaking hope that the next occupant of the White House will set everything to rights. There is a similar feeling about our great secular crusades -- for civil rights, for the environment. We believe that these problems can be solved for good; and while we do achieve tremendous improvements, we keep being surprised if they are neither complete nor permanent...
...major stumbling block to reform, Hamburg notes, is not a lack of money: simply reallocating current resources could yield dramatic gains. The higher hurdle is social selfishness. "People resist giving up what they have," he explains. One group that may be called on to sacrifice is the elderly, on whom vast sums are spent to sustain the last few weeks of life. Says Hamburg, who is 66: "People my age need to understand that our well-being depends on the workers of the next generation. Moreover, as a society, we've got to stop concentrating on the short-time horizons...
...pull of the ball and the hoop is just too strong to resist...