Word: resistive
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Although many computer wonks still think Apple is too tempting for Jobs to resist, the truth is that he's been much better at building new companies than running existing ones. Pixar, his latest love, is taking off. Eleven years ago, he clicked his mouse on the Hollywood icon and bought Pixar from Star Wars director George Lucas. He has dumped upwards of $55 million of his own money into the venture and fairly burbles with that famed charisma over his new mission: marrying Silicon Valley technology to Hollywood's creative genius. His studio became the first--besides Disney...
...need or even want it. A company pension, plus income from savings and investments, should keep me and my wife in comfort for however long we live. But even if I resist the temptation until 2001, I can then expect a letter urging me to apply for a Social Security pension. After age 70, there are no more restrictions: I'll be entitled to Social Security checks even if I'm still working...
Every time I see a cook flipping burgers or a cleaning woman emptying the trash baskets, I wonder if I can resist the temptation to rob them...
Marber and McDonagh resist the suggestion that they are part of a literary movement: "That makes it sound as though we all know each other and sit around in cafes all day chatting," says Marber. In fact they barely know one another. What really seems to bind these playwrights together, from the perspective of an outsider, is the absence from their work of any overt political agenda. These are not issue or idea plays (like, say, David Hare's Plenty or Caryl Churchill's Top Girls), though they speak seriously to a contemporary audience and reflect the world their authors...
...made a pass at her in the White House when she worked there in 1993, Kathleen Willey, whom he later appointed to the U.S.O. board of directors, said she is "outraged that she is being pulled into the Paula Jones case," has nothing of relevance to contribute and would resist any deposition. Willey added that she continues to have a very good relationship with the President. White House spokesman Mike McCurry was not amused: "I'm not going to assist news organizations in pursuing that story...