Word: unyieldingness
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When one world ended at 8:45 on Tuesday morning, another was born, one we always trust in but never see, in which normal people become fierce heroes and everyone takes a test for which they haven't studied. As President Bush said in his speech to the nation, we...
It's precisely that America-first approach that has caused such consternation over missile defense, where the unilateralists are rushing events along. Powell has to shoulder the so-far unsuccessful chore of pacifying allies and adversaries who take a dim view. In more than seven sit-downs with Foreign Minister...
Instead of competing against each other for tenure, the pair demanded that both be tenured simultaneously—a bold request at a University so exacting and usually unyielding in its tenure procedures.
A territorial division, of course, is exactly what the guerrillas want, despite all protestations to the contrary. The idea that the hard-eyed men in the hills have launched an armed insurgency in order to achieve constitutional changes and greater civil rights for Albanians in Macedonia is, frankly, preposterous. This...
But for the College, the physical restrictions of Harvard and of the city of Cambridge are unyielding. One hundred new acres in Allston mean little to undergraduates who still dream, against all odds, of a student center in the heart of Harvard's campus.