Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take the risk at all? Because the backcountry offers too much to resist: beauty, solitude and, yes, danger. So while the wilderness is still vast, it is going to get more crowded--and more lethal...
Unsatisfied, Travis forces the question and challenges Jesuit to a secret match outside of official league play. When Verrett and Grant ask the players' families about the possibility of going through with the secret game, it becomes clear that neither side can resist the chance to prove themselves the better team. The game takes place, therefore, because the chance for a truly equal competition overrides the teams' fears and mistrust of one another...
...University of North Carolina's James A.Stimson, who was offered a senior position over ayear ago, doesn't find the lure of Harvardimpossible to resist either...
...also says she was intrigued to note thatstudents' responses to new ways of writing wasrelated to the ways students resist and adjust tocollege life...
...Bruno, Calif., William McDonough saw it as a competition of ideas rather than for a contract. "Our idea," he says, "was that if a bird flew over the building, it would not know that anything had changed." If that sounds like pure eco-nut talk (I almost resist noting that McDonough is for the birds), try the question he puts to potential clients when he undertakes any of his architectural projects: "I ask, 'How do we love all children, all species, all time...