Word: resistive
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...London mayor but then tried to rig things so his cronies would be in charge. In both cases the locals rebelled, and Blair looked both sinister and silly. His ambitions to remake the country are so big that it may be hard for the control freak to resist grabbing even more levers of power...
...lawful to resist the chief magistrate if the state cannot otherwise be preserved," he said...
...mail that ate my life. Peter Chung was Master of the Universe, flexing his expense account in Seoul as associate of The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm that has among its advisers James Baker III. He couldn't believe his good fortune?and couldn't resist sharing news of it 10 days after his arrival with a small circle of far-flung friends. Wrote the giddy 24-year-old in an e-mail: "I know I was a stud in NYC but I pretty much get about, on average, five to eight phone numbers a night and at least...
...must confess to being seduced by Anoto's basic premise: old-fashioned pen and paper can be reinvented to fit the digital age. When the Chatpen comes onto the market, I won't be the first in line to buy one. But I doubt I will be able to resist for too long...
...Saddam and his cronies profit from a sanctions-busting economy believed to be worth around $3 billion a year - and the propaganda value of being able to blame Iraqis' suffering on the West, coupled with the lucrative business opportunities created by the sanctions gives Baghdad plenty of reason to resist "smartening" them...