Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the movie, Stone cannot resist indulging his overt, slap-in-the-face style. Has this man never heard of subtlety? One of the many instances occurs when Mickey comes to save Mallory. The entire episode is packaged as a sitcom fully equipped with fake, plastic decor creating a surreal aura reinforced by track laughter. This seems acceptable enough. Yet Stone takes what could have been a clever idea and pretentiously exploits it beyond meaning. The modern-day knight arrives enrobed in his bloody butcher shop apron carrying 50 pounds of raw meat. His scantily-clad damsel in distress comes...
...raise taxes again, or both. Vermont Governor Howard Dean, chairman of the National Governors Association, thinks momentarily flush states should put money into contingency funds to cushion the effects of the inevitable next slowdown. "But the legislators can't keep their hands off," he laments. His legislature, against liberal resistance, brought taxes back down to pre-1991 levels, forcing Dean to "cut ((spending on)) all kinds of things from education to welfare" -- an indication of how difficult tax-cut pressure is to resist...
...journal Science, "bacteria are cleverer than men." Just as they have adapted to nearly every environmental niche on the planet, they have now begun adjusting to a world laced with antibiotics. It didn't take long. Just a year or two after penicillin went into widespread use, the first resistant strain of staph appeared. As other antibiotics came along, microbes found ways to resist them as well, through changes in genetic makeup. In some cases, for example, the bacteria gained the ability to manufacture an enzyme that destroys the antibiotic...
...white blood cells, called CD-8 cells, whose job is to turn down the immune system before it careers out of control. Perhaps these people possess just the right balance between an overly aggressive immune system that produces more virus particles and a dangerously passive one that cannot resist infections...
...instance, regulates hunters down to the number of shotgun pellets allowed in heavily hunted areas; while Alabama's idiosyncratic "coon on a log" law is more liberal, permitting the maintenance of up to 10 captured raccoons during a season for use in demonstrating "the abilities of the raccoon to resist being retrieved or taken from a log in a lake by a dog and the ability of the respective dogs to retrieve raccoons...