Word: resisted
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...Harvard have no reason or right to resist the fact that just as there are better and worse schools, there are smarter and dumber kids, and the smarter ones belong in the better schools. Rather than a lottery system, President Bush and Gov. Bill Clinton should advocate a merit criterion to determine which students would make the best use of private-school educational opportunities...
...give them training as a group, they'll tend to band together and resist," Mospan said...
Saying that he cannot resist the call of his volunteers, though, Perot pledged run on. He has stunned the experts with his popularity and pulled the rug out from his volunteers. Now, it seems, he's brushed the rug off and laid it back on the floor...
...thinks he is invincible, but he is basically the kind of kind who won't go to court for a shoplifting hearing because he "[doesn't] feel like it." Jon feels no remorse for his actions, and while Jimmy has a conscience, he is too disaffected or disillusioned to resist the same daily appeal of small-time crime...
Gaidar nonetheless is pressing ahead with his plan to put all small business and housing into private hands by 1994, and at least 60% of big business by 1995, initially through the voucher plan. Actually, some of Civic Union's supporters may not resist: they hope to buy up many of the vouchers and cement their control of businesses by becoming the official owners as well as the managers...