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...Harvard with offenses ranging from dishonestly and inconsiderateness to rushing senselessly after profits to the detriment of the community. City councilors who called the sales a circumvention of the law may well step in during the next month by changing the rent control rules, but the University would undoubtedly resist...
...stir opposition to taxing fringe benefits (one ad shows a flock of birds circling around and pecking away at a loaf of bread). The Massachusetts Legislative Council for Older Americans is preparing a nationwide call for mass meetings, parades and a march on Washington to resist Medicare cuts. Vows a spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "If they want to make drastic cuts in veterans' hospitals, they're in for the fight of their lives...
Today Humana has general hospitals from Geneva to Anchorage. Though Jones, 52, and Cherry, 49, resist the notion that their chain was modeled on the McDonald's restaurant company, the two corporations are based on similar retail philosophies. Humana's guidelines: consistency, quality and high-volume, affordable care...
Banks argue that the holding period is a safety precaution; they must wait to be sure the check will not be returned. Bankers resist changing their policy for another
...surprisingly, playful frames are most often found around the work of newer artists, the ones most likely to resist received tradition (and to follow fashion). A deliberately cartoonish image by Kenny Scharf sports edges decked with plastic dinosaurs and rockets. Larger-than-life wooden silhouettes - two birds, for instance, or a garland of branches - shoot up around the landscapes of Alan Herman. More established figures are also working in the same vein. Howard Hodgkin, whose canny strokes of pigment hint at enclosed views, sweeps paint across the frame to twit its pretensions as the final proscenium...