Word: resists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chauvinist governments, like those of France and South Korea, will probably resist foreign takeovers. And niche manufacturers like BMW and Porsche, whose ownership is largely in family hands, may also remain independent. Almost everyone else is vulnerable...
WHOM EACH MIGHT DATE NEXT: Tabloids link Paltrow to former A Perfect Murder co-star Viggo Mortensen; Affleck could hook up with Alanis Morissette, with whom he co-stars in an upcoming film (she plays God, a figure traditionally hard to resist...
...skirmishes over a road that had been closed by the rebels highlight the gulf that remains between the two sides. Yugoslavia's Serb government held a cabinet meeting in the territory Friday to underline its determination to resist KLA demands for independence. U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke brokered a cease-fire last fall to avoid NATO air strikes against the Serbs, but that was widely interpreted as the two sides taking a winter recess. "One explanation for the renewed fighting might be that the weather has warmed up a little," says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. And when spring sets in, young...
...WINNER] After all those Road Runner cartoons, who could resist Acme...
...wooed away from her unstable Adam by the call of the rhinoceroses. She manages, as Berenger remarks at one point, "in a few minutes to live 25 years of marriage." In the cramped apartment, as the last human woman, she is assaulted by Berenger's insistence that they resist and save the world by regenerating the human race just as she is assaulted by the roaring and stamping of the rhinoceroses outside. In the end it is she that is the most alone and upon whose shoulders the final choice falls. Her loneliness grows as she considers the prospect...