Word: resister
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...same time, Fraser recognizes that unions cannot just stand still and hope that their problems will go away. While working to safeguard the benefits of his members, Fraser is willing to accept change. Says he: "Automation and robots are an inevitable trend. You can't resist the introduction of robots or else you forget all about competition with the Japanese. But it has to be done in a rational, civilized...
...monstrous list of all the courses that seem interesting or required. That will be fun. Then when you reach about 250, throw it away and pick out four or five that meet at a civilized hour and give you a good introduction to several potential areas of concentration. Resist the temptation to get all of your Premed requirements out of the way in two semesters what they tell you, there are none for law school...
Tousled-haired and grinning diffidently, Beaver is a 20th century Tom Sawyer. Able to resist anything but temptation, he is a dimpled noble savage who regards parents as gentle adversaries to be outwitted for their own good. He is a cultural icon for the baby-boom generation, the symbol of the apple-pie joys and melted ice-cream sorrows of an idyllic suburban childhood that never really was. After a successful six-year run, Beaver went off network television in 1963, but it continued to flicker on the mental screens of a generation...
...roll: 21 deficits in the past 22 fiscal years; a national debt that now tops $1 trillion; interest on that debt, at $83 billion a year, which exceeds the total of all federal spending 25 years ago. These numbers, they insist, prove that Congress and the White House cannot resist the pressures from special interests to squander the taxpayers' money unless a prohibition is written into the Constitution. Says Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, the amendment's chief sponsor...
...family film genre is to survive much longer, one can only hope that filmmakers learn to resist the temptation for mushy sentimentality. Until then, strong actors like Al Pacino are destined to end up with cake on their face...