Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Shares in such industries as aluminum, autos, chemicals, coppers, oils, papers, tires and rubbers and rails hit alltime highs in 1956-and have been going down ever since. Others, such as steels and airlines, have been steadily slipping since their 1959 highs. They have reached the point where they resist further pressure, appear to have hit bottom. To many individual and institutional investors, such stocks look like buys...
...passionately that it is the UN's role to protect these states and maintain them in the teeth of the cold war. He will not quit, will not allow Khrushchev to hamstring the world body because he knows that the UN--his UN--requires an executive powerful enough to resist pressures from any bloc...
Whitlock noted that the Cambridge City Council had put the University under "terrific pressure to forbid undergraduates to bring cars to college." The Administration is trying to resist this by seeking reasonable arrangements for parking. For this reason, he said, if undergraduates try to fight the University instead of helping it constructively, they may end up by losing the privileges they now have...
Nettled at the blithe hypocrisy by which many rich Latin Americans blame Uncle Sam for the absence of hospitals and schools that they themselves resist paying for, Cabot pointed out that U.S. income taxes run up to 92%. The U.S. taxpayer, he said, "is bound to question why his Government should ask a greater percentage of his earnings-partly for Brazil's development-than the Brazilian government asks of a Brazilian taxpayer with equivalent income...
...acted on this perspective at Geneva, we would have accepted the risk that there might be some undetected small-yield nuclear explosions in exchange for the establishment of a supranational authority in the area of arms control. Now in the aftermath of the Summit collapse, we should at least resist the urge to resume our own testing. The same determination to risk for peace would prevent us from undertaking a program of civil defense, as this would provoke moves from the other side, and increase the psychological danger of war by making war seem more tolerable. The conversion on constructive...