Word: resister
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...kids we refused to capitulate to demands that we ignore our feelings toward each other. Somewhere we found the strength to resist being indoctrinated, and we should count that among our assets. We have to realize that our loving each other is a good thing, not an unfortunate thing, and that we have a lot to teach straights about sex, love, strength, and resistance...
This agreement is the only prerogative that the tenants exercise in relation to the University. Should Harvard find some way to invalidate it, the tenants would be virtually helpless to resist eviction without provision for relocation...
...economy are among the losers. Administration officials have vowed to avoid arm-twisting intervention in labor disputes, and they kept their pledge during the G.E. battle. The strike was the first important test of the Administration's hope that an intensifying profit squeeze would force corporate executives to resist union demands for ever higher wage increases-and that union leaders eventually would settle for pay raises smaller than the inflationary ones they won last year. Instead, the G.E. boost is right in line with the 8.2% wage and benefit increase provided by major contracts negotiated in 1969. Such...
...greets and near greats of the English Department over from Warren House. They shuffle single-file into the small dining room, their plates piled high with chop suey lovingly dished out by Lorraine-the P.T. Barnum of the Harvard Food Services-who, if she can for some reason resist patting Harry Levin on the cheek and calling him sweetheart, will have to bug hockey star Joc Cavanagh instead and call him "honeybunch...
Modern technology is already pressuring nature with tens of thousands of synthetic substances, many of which almost totally resist decay?thus poisoning man's fellow creatures, to say nothing of himself. The burden includes smog fumes, aluminum cans that do not rust, inorganic plastics that may last for decades, floating oil that can change the thermal reflectivity of oceans, and radioactive wastes whose toxicity lingers for literally hundreds of years. The earth has its own waste-disposal system, but it has limits. The winds that ventilate earth are only six miles high; toxic garbage can kill the tiny organisms that...