Word: resistance
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They call it "the switch." Alcoholics who take an anticraving medication called baclofen say the drug allows them to resist the most powerful triggers of relapse: former drinking buddies, a favorite bar, the sight of alcohol or even the most potent drinking cue of all, having a single drink...
...aftermath of 9/11, the CIA, lacking experience in interrogating jihadis, turned to experts from a military school where soldiers are trained to resist torture. These experts came up with a range of "coercive" interrogation techniques, including the now infamous waterboard. When these methods were employed at the Guantánamo Bay detention center, the methods led to an angry confrontation over their legality between interrogators from the FBI and the CIA. Eventually, the FBI withdrew from the interrogations - a less-than-amiable divorce, so to speak...
...think things have changed in the recent collapse? I think it remains to be seen, but I don't think the culture of Wall Street has substantially shifted. Even in the midst of this major global financial crisis, Wall Street has still continued to resist change. And I'd argue part of the reason they've been able to, even though investment banking as we knew it no longer exists, is that their ethos still does. Their daily cultural practices still do. Just look at how fiercely investment banks have resisted changing their bonus structure. But I think...
...state prosecutors, who, critics of the reforms fear, might end up paying more attention to the political interests of leaders than to justice. That could result in French justice bending to the whims of politicians as it did in the 1970s and '80s when magistrates found themselves unable to resist political meddling. Judges eventually found a way of seizing their power back by conniving to get details of investigations into the press before they could be stopped. Some believe that the French system's tradition of independence itself is now under threat...
...brain-reserve hypothesis, which suggests that people who have more cognitive ability and more neural tissue to start with - sharper minds, broadly - may be better able to withstand the ravages of age. "In some ways, you could think of it like a trained athlete who might be able to resist some atherosclerosis of the heart," explains Dr. Bradley Hyman, director of the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School...