Word: resister
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...afraid to speak out. This University has a tendency to have a homogenizing influence on all who enter its gates. But those who fall into line with tradition rarely take an active role in influencing their community. Resist the urge to assimilate into the perfect Harvard student...
Many computer users still resist the idea of paying for help. Says Hand- Holding Founder Emil Flock: "People expect to get billed when they talk to their doctors and lawyers. But when they talk to a technical-support person, they expect it to be free." There are signs, however, that this attitude may be changing. Robert Refvem, for one, happily plunked down $65 for six months of MicroPro's premium service. "I call them up, I get a technician, I'm off and running," says the Burlingame, Calif., real estate agent. Besides, he adds, "it's the only way they...
...Hopi territory: Big Mountain, a juniper-dotted ridge about 50 miles east of Grand Canyon National Park. It is a place of endless sagebrush and soaring golden eagles, undergirded by rich seams of coal and uranium, where a band of perhaps 1,000 or so Navajo has vowed to resist relocation. "To move away is to disappear," says Pauline Whitesinger, an elderly resister with an easy smile. "In our traditional tongue, there is no word for relocation...
...keep the celebration. But he did not try to talk the Chief Justice out of his decision. At least one reason was that Burger's timing was politically opportune. The Republicans stand a real chance of losing control of the Senate this fall, and a Democratic leadership might bitterly resist a Reagan-appointed Chief Justice...
...proclaimed of pop in 1968. "Therefore no concessions should be made to it." Sorry. Concessions were made. "By the late 1960s," writes Princeton Scholar Louis Menand, "popular culture had permeated every aspect of life with an inexorability that was beyond the powers of any sort of intellectual antagonism to resist...