Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lennar for the destruction wrought by Hurricane Andrew at the properties investigated, it would not be fair or accurate." Not even Homestead Air Force Base could withstand the record 120-mile-an-hour winds of the unprecedented hurricane, and Florida Power and Light's concrete utility poles, built to resist 165-mile-an-hour winds, snapped like toothpicks...
Ironically, in their helpless diplomatic flailing to improve the situation, the U.N. has managed to achieve something very difficult; they have made life in Haiti worse. Clinton should resist those in our own land who would have us do the same...
...sexual involvement with boys under 18. In each instance the bishop was deemed guilty by officialdom, called on the carpet but not removed from his post. Information about each case was restricted to a small circle of church officials in Rome and the U.S. Today the hierarchy can still resist suggestions to learn more about pedophilia. For example, there are no good data on pedophile recidivism. Dr. Leslie Lothstein of the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut, proposed to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops three years ago that a study be conducted to learn, once and for all, what...
When it comes to gore, The Stand is more restrained than most King horror shows, but its metaphysical flights are prodigal. Dreams and visions abound, and the demonic villain has supernatural powers of indeterminate nature. King can't resist throwing everything into the pot. A TV movie about the apocalypse can get away with quoting Eliot ("This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper") or Yeats ("What rough beast . . . slouches towards Bethlehem?"), but probably not both. Still, even when The Stand skirts tedium and pretentiousness, King is a rough beast that TV is lucky...
...planning something like a law-and-order crackdown: he was an advocate of the state of emergency that was imposed in Natal province last month, and he has been talking more and more about enacting strict gun- control regulations. Right-wing whites and township gangs can be expected to resist them...