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...large corporations like GM often stubbornly resist change, as underscored by the crises now gripping such American giants as IBM, Sears and < Citicorp. "Big organizations that last a long time are usually very conservative, like churches or armies," Womack says. Their size usually helps them forestall change for too long, so that when the forces finally become irresistible, the upheaval resembles the centrifugal breakup of the Soviet Union...
Falco has found, surprisingly, that the most successful classroom programs use techniques like role-playing to equip self-conscious teens with basic ! social skills, such as as how to conduct a conversation or respond to rudeness, as well as how to resist peer pressure to get high. The working assumption is that kids who can handle their anxiety in social situations are less likely to turn to drugs for comfort...
...contest the bombardment of negative Blackstereotypes put forth by white supremacists,"Blacks need "the power to represent ourselves toourselves" and to resist "the colonized soul," hesaid...
...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...