Word: withstood
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Remarkably enough, the nuclear building program has withstood the two great shocks of the atomic era. The 1979 near meltdown at Three Mile Island spawned new safety regulations. The catastrophe at Chernobyl in 1986 set off a public outcry in most of Western Europe, forcing some governments to curtail nuclear programs -- but not France. Five reactors will be added to the national grid in this decade. The Superphenix fast-breeder reactor, a joint venture with Italy and Germany, is working, though it has been dogged by technical problems and will never recover its $4.5 billion development cost...
...communist establishment adamantly opposes another name swap. Reluctant to rally behind the widely discredited Lenin, apparatchiks have focused their argument on the dubious notion that a rechristening would dishonor the martyrs of the brutal siege of Leningrad, in which the city withstood a Nazi blockade for 900 days without falling. Functionaries also complain that altering the city's name on street signs, documents and official insignia would cost 150 million rubles...
...mainstream movies a generation ago, Sidney Poitier was Hollywood's Martin Luther King Jr. Poitier's screen characters were as noble as any blond hero -- nobler, because they withstood and deflected so much unjustified abuse. But the role of soulful sufferer was a dead end for blacks on both sides of the movie screen. Intransigent white America could not be persuaded to lift blacks to equality. Could the system then be scared into action? The Watts and Newark riots of the mid-'60s may have been mainly fratricidal, and the your-money-or- your-wife taunts of the Black Panthers...
...very foundation of the Jewish faith and identity are the Old Testament and the Talmud. These texts are the basis of the resilient Jewish culture which has withstood such great adversity for millennia. The Jewish denunciation of homosexuality is unequivocal in passages such as Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a man as with a woman: that is an abomination." The Old Testament is very clear in its condemnation of the homosexual lifestyle, which Hillel has embraced as a legitimate "minority." If AALARM is to be condemned for its belief in the immorality of homosexuality and sodomy, then...
...lacrosse team knows its history: for the past three years, the Crimson has traded victories with Cornell in nail-biting one-goal games. Two years ago, Cornell edged the Crimson in Ithaca on a late-game tally. Last year, the series returned to Ohiri Field, and Harvard withstood a last-minute Big Red onslaught to emerge victorious...