Word: resistive
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...Harvard Law School professors penned an article last month criticizing the recording industry's aggressive efforts to crack down on illegal downloading, calling on universities to resist demands to assist in the industry's campaign...
...course slowing down trade requires only collective will, not regulations. What if buyers decided to resist the siren song of low prices emanating from the nearest Wal-Mart and buy instead from mom-and-pop stores stocked with higher-priced, locally made goods? Globalization would decelerate. Offshoring could be slowed, too, if vast numbers of buyers agreed to pay more for services whose workers are based in their home countries. Such a scenario, however, seems unlikely. In the 1970s, car buyers didn't hesitate to choose Toyotas and Hondas when they proved cheaper or more reliable than Fords and Fiats...
...between what society had promised people and what would be available to keep those promises. (He was right, but it was still boring.) Peterson made $1.88 billion when Blackstone went public last month. Here was an opportunity for statesmanship that you would have thought Peterson would be unable to resist. Like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Sr., he could be the rich man who speaks the truth to other rich folks about the need to pay their taxes. Yet there has been silence from that corner. Maybe Peterson has found a better use for his billions than securing his reputation...
...part, the Mail on Sunday printed, and sold, an extra 600,000 copies in addition to the 2.3 million they usually sell every week. Advertisers find it hard to resist those kinds of sums. And according to managing director Stephen Miron, his office has been flooded with calls from other artists wanting in on the action (as for who, he won't tell). "They are saying they think this is a much more effective and efficient way of building up their business...
...year was in a summer theater revival of The Boy Friend. He has a word-perfect memory of the audition: "The producer, who was 93, said, 'There are people here who can sing and dance better than you. But nobody has as much fun on stage. I can't resist you. You're contagious. I am going to hire you because I have so much fun watching...