Word: resistency
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...making her an exception among her college and high school friends, who often remain in the South), she retains the smiling, friendly demeanor so characteristic of her native region. As our barely older intern coordinator, she dances the line between protective and authoritative—still unable to resist updates on the inevitable intern gossip and drama. Like many of us, she does not hesitate to tell P.D. exactly when he's being ridiculous. Though at times this causes her to slip from her place of authority, I frankly prefer it and am glad she hasn't lost her youthful...
...tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.'" Americans risked a similar fate, Kennedy warned, "if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress ... Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future...
...research becomes more advanced, the Hagermans hope that more people with suspicious symptoms will choose to be tested for the fragile X mutation and premutation. Many families with an autistic child resist, not wanting to learn that the cause is genetic, but Paul Hagerman urges them to look at things another way. The day is rapidly approaching, he believes, when autism caused by fragile X will be known as the "treatable type...
...words of committee chairman, Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, evidence at the hearing showed "how techniques, which are used teach American soldiers to resist abusive interrogations by enemies that refuse to follow the Geneva Conventions, were turned on their head and sanctioned by Department of Defense officials for use" on prisoners held...
...will they prevail? By continuing to resist the regime ... By making sure that the international community isolates it, by making sure the economy is not sustainable. That way, the regime's pillars of support will realize how futile it is to continue...