Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Okay, so maybe it was our respective nicotine and running-shoe habits, coupled with some massive thesis-incurred library fines, that forced us to be money conscious...but we couldn't resist mentioning the Senior Gift on April Fool...
BIRD BATH The FDA has approved a spray for baby chicks that reduces disease-causing salmonella. Called Preempt, it contains natural, beneficial bacteria that help the birds resist the salmonella...
ASTROWATCH Omega's Speedmaster Professional X-33 is no ordinary timepiece. Designed for astronauts, the $3,000 watch can resist temperatures up to 200[degrees]F, peal out an 80-decibel alarm (nearly as loud as a freight train) and track mission time. If it's good enough to be used in space, it's good to go on earth...
...Some resist using the term "popular culture" todescribe their work. Stilgoe, who devotes anentire lecture to the evolution of Coca-Colaadvertisements, says "popular culture" isdifficult to define...
What will always be important--and what apathetics will never care about--is the will to resist complacency and the conviction to raise our arms when inevitably, there really is something to fight about...