Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...item veto promises less, both to Congress and to the cause of a balanced budget, than the panacea it has been made out to be. It is too superficial and has too many potential side effects to cure our budgets' ills. Congress should defer to its better judgement and resist this instance of political quackery...
...refusals do you know that Judith Singer (Susan Sarandon) is not only a likable woman but a good one. She is very nearly the only lady in her Long Island suburb who has resisted the oleaginous charms of Dr. Bruce Fleckstein, a periodontist whose hands tend to roam from his drill and who has a taste for taking pictures of his female patients that reveal more than the condition of their root canals. Judith even has the sweetly articulated moral fiber to resist the more attractive proposals of the nice police detective (Raul Julia) who is investigating Dr. Bruce...
With so attentive an audience, Ballard, a devoted student of Titanic lore, could not resist bringing up a controversial subject: the actions of Stanley Lord, captain of the liner Californian, who Ballard said was definitely within reach of the sinking ship and may have ignored its white distress flares. Lord claimed at investigations of the tragedy that the Californian was more than 19 miles north of the sinking ship. "The Californian was inside of ten miles, perhaps as close as four miles," Ballard insisted, "and there is no doubt it could have gone in there and rescued those people...
Reagan's change of heart appears to be a major concession to two political realities: he faced defeat in Congress if he continued to resist sanctions, and the bitter fight that would ensue if he attempted to exercise his veto might poison the atmosphere for the entire legislative session. The senior Administration official insisted, however, that the new presidential sanctions do not represent any change in Reagan's views on South Africa. The President, this official said, has always harbored sympathy for the measures in the congressional bill, which a month ago was hammered out by a joint House-Senate...
...struggle in composing one's ad is to be distinctive and relentlessly self-confident. What woman could resist the "rugged rascal with masculine determined sensual viewpoint"? An ad should not overreach, however, like the woman who began: "WANTED: One Greek god of refined caliber...