Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begins at a White House summit in December, with legislation to follow next year. Since a handful of congressional Democrats agree with Republican calls for private accounts, it may be possible for Clinton to get bipartisan support by going along with them. But many Democrats argue that he should resist and push for government control of the investments to reduce costs and spread the risk. Al Gore's counsel will be pivotal--he has plenty at stake, since fixing Social Security could be a calling card for 2000--but big constituencies like labor and the elderly will be watching...
...dealt with issues of class and race in America; this album seems to have more of a global viewpoint, with lyrics that touch on Bosnia, Iran-contra and other foreign affairs. The real message, however, is in the insurgent energy of the music, the hammering drums, the fierce guitars: Resist, question, don't sell out, don't give...
...Rock 'n roll is the way white people can resist dominant structures. It's a way to imagine and create yourself outside of what created you and to say something in a way that can be subversive. People with no reason to resist imagine a reason and sing it. Which is why even though rock begins white, it spirals out control, becomes desegregated almost immediately...
...that a lot of obstetricians are going to resist that kind of advice. Their reluctance has more to do with the demands of high-tech medicine, however, than with any real concern about the dangers of walking...
...resist everything except temptation. OSCAR WILDE...