Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apparent (and only then), administrators realized something had gone wrong. Relegating student input to a token role in the planning process--a few seats on a committee--came back to haunt them. But even financial losses didn't make them heed the voices of dissatisfied undergraduates. Administrators continued to resist dramatic changes in lighting and furnishings. Their half-hearted response--a few couches and a pool table--could not overcome the utter lack of regard for undergraduate life apparent in the design...
...power of votes, not money, also explains the country's legions of unnecessary military bases, water projects and highway projects. When members of Congress decided in 1988 and 1991 to hand over authority to a special base-closing commission, they didn't do so because they couldn't resist campaign contributions from wealthy military officers. Instead, they were simply afraid that they would suffer retribution from outraged voters who would lose their jobs or customers if the bases shut down...
...worst case scenario: Lewinsky comes into occasional contact with the President, who is a bit too friendly. She doesn't resist his glances, and is all too happy to follow him into that room behind the Oval Office. She is willing to do whatever the leader of the free world would like; he is willing to engage in a bit of, shall we say, stimulation with a woman less than half his age. Heck, he's got the Secret Service in his back pocket. If he can get away with the Gennifer Flowers affair, with refusing to settle with Paula...
...possible, as Harper says, that an older scholar may resist new modes of thinking, though we certainly hope to avoid making that kind of appointment. But it is at least equally possible that after receiving tenure a younger scholar may grow comfortable, cease to pursue active scholarship and resist new modes of thinking. There are many good reasons for promoting Faculty members "from within," but doing so cannot guarantee that a department will thereby be made more vital and interesting in the long run. In many tenure-track departments the reverse has in fact happened...
...enough to be legally insane. The defense strategy for his trial, which began this week, had appeared to be set. His lawyers had planned to argue that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, which made him incapable of forming the intent to commit a premeditated crime. But paranoid schizophrenics typically resist being labeled mentally ill, and Kaczynski proved to be all too typical. On Dec. 18 he wrote a letter to complain to U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr., who quickly summoned Kaczynski and his lawyers to his chambers to discuss Kaczynski's "concerns." The Harvard-educated defendant, it turned...