Word: resister
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During the cold war, you may have violently disagreed about exactly where and how the U.S. should resist communism, but you shared the rough consensus that resistance and involvement were necessary. The Soviets had nukes, they and their allies fought our influence everywhere, and you worried about the prospect of a lot of countries going communist. Maybe you thought it wouldn't matter here and there, but if it happened in too many places, there would go ! the global neighborhood; we would end up with a world in which the U.S. could hardly feel safe, could hardly be itself...
...ceded the island to the U.S. after the Spanish-American War of 1898.) "There was resentment, trauma, about being forced to learn all subjects in English years ago," says Ricardo Alegria, executive director of the Center for Advanced Studies in San Juan. Those memories, he speculates, cause many to resist learning English even today. Insular identity remains sacrosanct. Last week, after Madonna caressed herself with the Puerto Rican flag during a San Juan concert, politicians of all stripes raised angry criticism. Local clerics even pressed a campaign of hanging black ribbons on trees in protest...
Monday: Expos policies create personnel problems, resist oversight and hurt the quality of teaching in the program...
Yesterday: Expos policies create trenchant personnel problems, resist oversight, and hurt the quality of teaching in the program...
Today: Expos policies create trenchantpersonnel problems, resist oversight and hurt thequality of teaching in the program...