Word: resists
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García had no choice politically but to resist foreign creditors. Peru's fragile democratic government, only five years old, must contend with a rebel guerrilla insurgency as well as an economy in crisis. Inflation runs at 250%, and about two-thirds of the labor force is either unemployed or working part time. Worst of all, García alleges, wealthy Peruvians have been frantically buying U.S. dollars and putting money into bank accounts abroad. To stop this capital flight, García shut down Peru's banks after he became President. When he allowed them to reopen two days later, accounts...
...making a vaccine) 100 to 1,000 times as fast as quick-changing flu viruses. As a result, he says, "trying to develop a vaccine for AIDS is like trying to hit a rapidly moving target." Scientists are now searching for segments of the coat that seem to resist change, hoping to use them to create a vaccine that would remain effective against more than one strain of AIDS. But even the most optimistic experts think that an effective vaccine is still five years...
...best way to avoid all types of skin cancer is simply to stay out of the sun, especially during the peak-intensity hours of midday. For those who cannot resist its lure, doctors urge the use of sunscreens designed to block ultraviolet radiation. People who have already had a basal-cell carcinoma run a 25% risk of developing another and must be especially cautious. Last week Reagan admitted that this advice was "a little heartbreaking ... because all my life I've lived with a coat of tan, dating back to my lifeguard days...
...nine families and two young bachelors. But since Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced plans to evacuate the residents of Sa-Nur this summer, new residents have flooded into the settlement. Now 150 people live here. At the synagogue, Yossi Dagan, the 24-year-old organizing the fight to resist Sharon's orders, fields requests from friends who want to be in Sa-Nur when the army comes to evacuate it. "Sa-Nur was basically abandoned for a while," says Dagan. "Now people are coming to protect us." When Israelis talk about defending themselves, it is usually against Palestinian suicide...
...Jesse,†many of his passengers reply, seemingly unable to resist his infectious smile...