Word: resisted
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...Cambridge's lawmakers in the House are pushing a bill to preserve low-income housing and resist an effort by the government to put federally subsidized rental units on the open market. That bill currently sits in committee. Although it may not be considered by the end of the day, the bill may be resubmitted in January...
...involved in atom lithography through standing wave quenching, working with metastable argon. This process involves selectively removing the internal energy of the atoms necessary to pattern the resist layer on top of the silicon prior to etching. It requires much less laser power and allows more flexibility than former experiments...
Historically, defendants who claim insanity or mental disease in federal trials rarely succeed. But if the jury in this case is allowed to hear details about paranoid schizophrenia, they may see some disturbing parallels with Kaczynski's life. For example, psychiatrists say true schizophrenics often resist diagnosis. "They don't like to think of themselves as mentally ill," says Dr. Ira Glick, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford. "They'd think something else caused their problems, like bad parenting or bad government or too many drugs--anything but being labeled crazy." Kaczynski has lashed out at both his parents...
...failing of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a recurring metaphor it uses--and overuses--to unify its many narrative strands. "You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down...When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries. If everything dries up, the world is darkness." This is the philosophy impressed upon Okada by Mr. Honda, an elderly psychic with a weird fascination with phlegm. This analogy, intended to emphasize the nature of Okada's adventures in existential wackiness, is repeated throughout the novel...
UNITED NATIONS: Chief weapons inspector Richard Butler has ordered nearly all his team out of Iraq, after Baghdad announced that American inspectors would be expelled, effective immediately. Cheered on by the White House, Butler said he would "resist this segregation" and leave nothing but a skeleton UNSCOM staff in Iraq...