Word: resister
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...watching from the sidelines as his partybegan to prepare for the 1988 presidentialelections, Thornburgh could not resist as he sawGary Hart's candidacy self-destruct in a week andVice-President George Bush fail to do well at thepolls. In June, Thornburgh gave his approval toaides' urgings that he at least consider a run forthe Republican nomination...
...proviso unconstitutional, as the Supreme Court subsequently ruled, but at the time, Capitol Hill Democrats led by O'Neill seemed more eager to fight than be right. "They almost wanted to be co-President," Bell recalled the other day. "If a President is faithful to his oath, he must resist...
...Blackmun's 1977 opinion that lawyers have a right to advertise, he could not resist twitting some in his profession...
...notion of 50 readers swinging in hammocks is hard to resist. At nearly 700 pages, Alnilam is a book for a long, hot summer. "I've tried to do for the air what Melville did for water," says Dickey with a laugh that deflects the seriousness of his novel. It is a euphonious mystery story set at a U.S. Army Air Corps training base during the 1940s. Flying, in the mechanical as well as transcendental sense, is basic to the action, which is surprisingly abundant for a book that is shaped by poetic impulses rather than plot...
...still produce an effective, if longer, interrogation, said Inouye. Lawyers for both sides discussed a compromise that would have North submit to limited questioning in private, but no agreement had been reached at week's end. Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House panel, indicated he and his colleagues would resist any plan under which "North would be dictating the procedures...