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Most of the men and women who take top positions in the Federal Government could get along without the low salaries, the long hours and the public scrutiny-but they love power too much to resist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: The High Art of Threatening | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

Cornell safety officers, wearing riot helmets and armed with pistols, forced their way into the president's office and ejected the students, who did not resist. Rhodes, who was not in his office at the time of the takeover, ordered the officers to eviet the students, a University spokesman said, adding that the students will be prosecuted for violating the campus code of conduct...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Cornell Students Take Over Office To Protest Tuition Increase | 4/4/1981 | See Source »

...Shattered," which opens up the first side, and "Dance, Pt. 2." "Hot Stuff" does however provide a clear picture of the New York the Rolling Stones know. It is a town of confusion and fast, undirected movement, which can suck you in for a lifetime if you don't resist its pull...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: It's Only Rock and Roll | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

...share that with you." Says a former partner, Robert Rose, now chief justice of Wyoming's supreme court: "He comes off as so real that jurors trust him. They have to decide which side to be on, and if he wants to be your friend, you can barely resist him." Spence likes to illustrate his arguments with graphic props, such as an old milking stool whose legs he removes, one by one, to show how his opponent's case collapses without certain supports. He also favors folksy sayings like "You've got to get the hogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Fastest Gun in the West | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...resist. Immediately hand over your wallet, your watch, your jewelry and anything else the mugger wants. That is the primary survival tip given by law-enforcement officials across the nation to potential victims of armed street criminals. Says officer Michael Sansky of the Los Angeles police department: "If he's got a weapon, you go along with whatever he says. You're not going to gouge out an eye or kick out a knee if he's armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If It Happens to You... | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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