Word: resistible
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...goods scavenged from wrecked houses, and hide from cannibalistic gangs--"men who would eat your children in front of your eyes"--who are all that's left of human civilization. The man's only goals are these: to remember a happy day on a lake with his uncle, to resist the temptation of suicide (the boy's mother gave in to it), and to crush all goodness and empathy in his son, so he won't waste their precious resources helping fellow survivors...
...your co-workers find the rumor du jour hard to resist? Is your office laced with backbiting and backstabbing? April Callis of Springboard Consulting says she has the cure: Gossip Stoppers. The East Lansing, Mich., trainer has given this half-day workshop 30 times this year at infected workplaces like hospitals and universities and is now fielding requests from corporations...
...York Times noted in August, the book is the latest controversy in a growing literary conspiracy in which powerhouse companies like Viking use an author’s pedigree rather than their talent as their principle publishing criterion. Resist the urge to make another Opal Mehta joke...
...made booming sounds, they shut it off and boiled water on the stove for sponge baths for three days until French repairmen appeared. "The French have a different sense of urgency," Conlon says dryly. That hasn't deterred the couple from planning a regular sabbatical, however. Who can resist playing English cottager, Parisian apartment dweller or Tuscan farmhouse owner--if only for a short while...
Still, folks bent on retiring will find it difficult to resist thinking of a greatly appreciated home as the final piece of their call-it-quits puzzle. If you're of that mind, at least learn from the tech bubble. Would-be retirees who got bruised most back then were the ones who watched their technology stocks soar beyond expectations, enabling them to hit their savings goals ahead of schedule and quit work--but who failed to diversify and got stung when those stocks later plunged...