Word: resistible
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...have confessed sooner to his parents. After all the jurors had their say, the group reached a consensus: 30 hours of community service and an apology letter to Wal-Mart. "By now he should be mature enough not to steal toys," McCann said. "I think this will help him resist the temptation...
...this being a kiddie flick, I couldn’t resist wondering what kind of message it’s sending to its intended audience. It’s not so complicated, actually. Lohan’s perpetually made-up character is ogled at as much as possible in a G-rated film. As if enacting an English lecture about the oppressive male gaze, the camera lingers on her mini-miniskirted frame as she climbs through a car’s driver seat window and proceeds to floor the gas, all while wearing stilettos...
...question-and-answer period following the presentation, Allston residents continued to resist undergraduate housing in Allston, voicing fears that their own neighborhood community would be displaced by the arrival of Harvard undergraduates...
...host of important ideas. Whether or not they are new is irrelevant. A good idea is a good idea: military reform, national service, a notion of sacrificial patriotism, as opposed to the superficial I-Love-Miss-Liberty kind now in vogue. (Though, unfortunately, even here Hart cannot resist defining patriotism as "more than slogans celebrating past achievements. It's an opportunity to draw a blueprint for our future...
...will get the first of two planned tax cuts, and wages are expected to rise by around 4% this year. Giersch expects labor leaders to call for larger increases in 1986. Since an election is coming next year, he said, the government will not be in a mood to resist. Inflation, currently 1.8%, is expected...