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...weight of this evidence has accelerated the trend over the past decade to ban smoking in public places. Adams House is wise not to resist the trend. Breathing smoke-filled air is not only extremely unpleasant, but it can also be dangerous to health. Disregarding these health hazards would be the true nightmare...
Americans, haunted by the stern visage of Woodrow Wilson, are loath to confess that they do not act for reasons of morality alone. We would rather not admit that one reason to resist Saddam Hussein is that we are not prepared to see the economies of the West wrecked by the ambition of a foreign tyrant. Indeed, some American critics think it a fatal moral criticism of the gulf war to say that if Kuwait had only sand and no oil, the U.S. would not have rushed to its defense...
...economy worsens, the republics are growing more restive, the forces of order more demanding and the left more fractious. In the face of such pressure, Gorbachev's efforts to govern look increasingly feeble. Moreover, he has linked his fate to those who retain power but who most resist real change: Communist Party apparatchiks, industrial managers, army generals, KGB colonels...
BUSH'S COMMITMENT to "resist aggression" via U.N. resolutions smacks of Kennan's warning against "the belief that it should be possible to suppress the chaotic and dangerous aspirations of governments in the international field by the acceptance of some system of legal rules and restraints...
...year The Last Boy Scout will be the only Warner film to have a budget of more than $30 million. "We're not giving * up working with stars, as long as we can match the right star with the right material," says Warner chairman Robert Daly. "We want to resist the trap of overpackaging movies...