Word: resistive
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Four protesters stood outside Toad carrying signs that read “Resist the Smoking Ban” and “Tobacco Control is Out of Control...
...tutorial leader to a beer-and-bong bonanza after chancing upon him on a recent walk back to the quad. While the conversation never turned to the F+ Sanchez received on his tutorial paper, “John Locke: Euro Cock,” Dirty couldn’t resist the temptation to do a little schooling of his own, beating his tutorial leader with a 700 page hardcover volume of Democracy in America as he lay passed out on their common room futon, marking the first time that Dirty had ever cracked the cover of a tutorial book...
...Fall Term will have to start earlier, but it will be worth it if we can then share vacation times with our friends and families for extended periods of time—without the prospect of exams sapping the merriness from every holiday season. The Staff, however, wants to resist a measure that would be a clear and long-overdue improvement to student life. Its ill-conceived position only seeks to conserve the oppressive status...
...Production costs for paperbacks can be as low as 11? per copy?cheap enough to enable pirates to profit while undercutting cover prices of genuine versions by up to 70%. Though some pavement booksellers stick to selling legitimate books, others like Kumar say the knockoff trade is hard to resist because it's lucrative, demand for cheap reading material is high and local authorities can be paid to look the other way. Kumar says he bribes the police about $20 and New Delhi city officials $10 every month...
...waitress, a sweet and somewhat scattered twenty-something who, like the restaurant itself, was clearly new to the business but trying hard, had suggested what the menu called “lightly deep fried mashed boiled pumpkin” next. Difficult as this was to resist, we asked if she could bring some miso soup instead. The waitress argued against it—“miso doesn’t come with your meal.” We replied that we had no problem with paying for it. “Ok,” she said reluctantly. Let?...