Word: resistive
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Normally, such behavior would not get you far in the land of white-shirted "salarymen." But Shigeru Miyamoto, 43, has reached the top in the rarefied world of video-game designers by consistently creating games that kids can't resist. As a result, he's as revered as a rock star--and not just in Japan. Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and movie directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have all traveled to Nintendo's famed E.A.D. (Entertainment Analysis and Development) lab in Kyoto to meet the man known as the Spielberg of video games...
...loot in his bedroom, which he would not allow his parents to enter. As Alex grew more confrontational, Anthony began to fear for the safety of his wife and their two younger daughters. Last September, when police wanted to return Alex to a youth home, the parents did not resist. Two months later, Alex pleaded no contest to burglary, weapons and drug charges, and began a one-year sentence in juvenile detention...
...Some people were literally beaten up for bringing books home by peers, and in many cases had to resist extreme peer pressure that would encourage people not to study," he says...
...horseshoe-type, steel alloy key lock on your bicycle. Lock it to something stationary and solid enough to resist bolt cutters, such as a sign post, iron fence or bike rack...
...CHAIN LINK FENCE AROUND the grassy field where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood is a monument to suffering great and small. Dozens of mourners congregate here each day, and like children at a wishing well, they cannot resist leaving tokens behind. Nudged into the 8-ft.-high grid are tin medallions of the Virgin Mary, polyester roses, a phone card with a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, an Afro pick, a flowered scarf, a globe key chain, poems and prayers on scraps of paper, crucifixes made from twigs and, in this Easter season, scores of green...