Word: resistency
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...sure with the way Brazilian politics is organized whether he’ll be effective or not,” said Rodrik. “But I do know that he couldn’t resist taking the job regardless of the risks...
...terrorism," while admitting the facility should be closed at some point. Now, it appears that Bush's growing political weakness and pressure from pragmatic elements within his own Administration may be forcing him toward that eventuality sooner rather than later, even as hard-liners like Cheney continue to resist...
...Maybe the lure of the Presidency will be impossible to resist. But Bloomberg is 65 years old, and even some of his admirers struggle to imagine him crashing in a Holiday Inn in Nashua, N.H. They also struggle to imagine him shedding the last vestiges of his privacy (and some of his luxury!) to live in the White House; as Mayor, he's refused to tell the City Hall press corps when he's jetted off to his vacation home in Bermuda. Bloomberg has led a charmed life, but if he ever wonders about the pitfalls of a rich...
...There are also times when unilateral action is an absolute advantage. "One of the best decisions Bush made was to resist the calls to put all of the $2.5 billion in AIDS support into the international fund," says Richard Holbrooke. "It was important that the recipients know the medicine was coming directly from the United States. It has helped our reputation throughout Africa." The next President will have to understand that there are tremendous advantages to be gained from benign unilateralism...
...tyranny--marked the beginning of the U.S.'s role as leader of the free world. Through all the ups and downs of the cold war and through the 1990s and this decade, the memories of World War II have sustained the U.S., as it did its duty in helping resist tyranny and expand the frontiers of freedom in the world...