Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...engaged in banned weapons work. "These are militarily measurable objectives," said a Navy officer. "If you destroy half of his missile factories, you can conclude you?ve destroyed half of his missile-building capability." With the U.N. sitting quietly by, Iraq may be too target-rich to resist...
...short in the city, it seems at first that the city will become Balkanized as Arabs are subject to racial violence, and the police are needed to protect them. Once the Army steps in however, the city begins to bull back together to support the Arab community and to resist what is seen as the heavy hand of the federal government. Those who have decried the film as racist are correct in that yes this is another film about shady Arabs, but the film seeks to redeem itself by having the government take extreme measures against all Arabs, thereby overtly...
Most of the illegals are from rural districts where jobs are limited, and the temptations of China's already crowded cities--and America's streets of gold--are impossible to resist. They aren't prepared for the harshness of the life they find in New York City, according to Yung Fong Chan, a clergyman whose church serves the Fujianese immigrants. "Mental illness and suicide have both become serious problems," he says. "People, isolated from their families and forced to endure hardship they never imagined, just snap." Then there is the constant pressure from the gangs who brought them over...
Senator John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) challenged a crowd of 200 students last night at Harvard Law School to resist the lure of corporate law and high finance and encouraged them to go into public service...
...White House has pressured some in H.R.C. to resist backing D'Amato. One way out is to endorse both candidates. But the logic of endorsing D'Amato runs this way: If a gay organization doesn't encourage Republicans who stick their neck out, why should they bother? And if H.R.C. backs a supportive Republican, wouldn't that foster a new generation of G.O.P. leaders who would respond to the more moderate politics of the G.O.P.'s growing younger and suburban base? "That party is at war with itself, and its best decision makers are not at the top," says Birch...