Word: resistible
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...First created during the Mataram kingdom in the 17th century, batik has been historically appreciated throughout the Indonesian archipelago, but especially by the people of central and eastern Java, where the technique of wax-resist dyeing originated. In recent decades, though, batik has gone into crisis: handworked cloth simply cannot compete in price with mass-produced printed textiles. Changes in the manufacture of batik - with several assembly-line workers now robotically completing individual stages that were once handled by a single highly skilled artisan - have also diminished the cloth's allure. Government support has become essential to the industry...
Dick asked me out when we were both 16. I couldn't resist. He had a crew cut, and he was a football player. He didn't talk a lot, but when he did, everything he had to say was interesting. That was the beginning, and it's now 50 years later...
...Government and took a lead role in creating one as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. But in 1798, as a leader of the fight against the war measures of President John Adams, he became an advocate of states' rights, urging his native Virginia and its fellow states to resist "dangerous" exercises of federal power. In 1815, when Madison was President, he had to fend off a threat by New Englanders to wield the power of their states against his war measures, which they found "dangerous." Madison had a supple mind--supple enough to reconcile his shifting position, which...
LEGAL RESTRAINTS Illegal immigrants who physically resist deportation from Spain will now have to wear straitjackets, ostensibly to prevent them from self-harm...
...1970s, South Africa's first black tycoon fought for six years to become a racehorse owner when the Jockey Club of Southern Africa (now known as the National Horseracing Authority) was a white-only bastion. But once he was admitted (after a lengthy legal battle), he couldn't resist the temptation to needle his adversaries. "I called my first horse Another Color," the 80-year-old Maponya recalls. "On his third time out, Another Color came scorching home. At 400 m out, he hit the front, and the commentator was screaming: 'Another Color is coming up! Another Color is taking...