Word: resisted
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UNIX Systems Manager Michael G. Burner, who byall accounts was the soul of HASCS's UNIX systems,resigned last summer to take an outside positionthat he "couldn't resist," according to Osterberg...
...most part, he chose those words carefully and delivered thn em well. But when he spoke to the press late Friday to announce the arrest of Timothy McVeigh, he strayed from that discipline and turned the encounter into a self-referential exercise. This time, Clinton couldn't resist the temptation to state that federal prosecutors would seek the death penalty; that doing so might strike some listeners as gratuitous no longer seemed to worry...
...There's a bigger problem--our internalization of racism," he said. "We wind up hating ourselves, degrading ourselves. Racial selfhatred is the most insidious from of racism because we've embraced the same racism that we claim to resist...
What sane woman could possibly resist a man who quoted, in a heartfelt declaration of love, lyrics from one of David Cassidy's--while he was with the Partridge family--songs? But David Cassidy notwithstanding, the relationship succeeded because they lived apart...
Iacocca insists the takeover bid is not a strategy to get the old cowboy back in the saddle. "I'm an investor, period," he says. "No directorship, no management, nothing--zero." But even as he says that, he can't resist kibbitzing. For one thing, Iacocca has wanted for years to make Chrysler a truly international operation with sales and manufacturing capabilities around the world. In the 1980s he tried to enter his company into deals first with Volkswagen, then with Fiat, but to no avail. "We do not have a global presence," he complained last week...