Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...understanding their racial history, Black students can resist yielding "to the temptation to be lost and becom[ing] something [they] are not," he said...
Reagan's lawyers are likely to resist turning over the diaries by citing the doctrine of "Executive privilege," which protects the Chief Executive's private communications. Curiosity abounds in the capital as to precisely what the former President recorded each day. Said a former Administration official: "I recall occasions when I was in the White House when people seemed to be insinuating that 'diary' was an overstatement of what we were really talking about...
...supervisors have adamantly denied any racial jiggering of district boundaries. They refuse to consider expanding the board to seven members, as their critics have suggested. And they resist the idea of creating a new, predominantly Latino district, which is what the plaintiffs are asking U.S. District Judge David V. Kenyon to do. Such a plan, says Supervisor Peter Schabarum, would be "fundamentally un-American" and "racist." He adds, "I have real trouble with a Voting Rights Act that says ethnic groups ought to have a district fashioned just so they can have one of theirs representing them...
...West, miraculously shares Safire's gift for language, describing his political philosophy as "improvisationism" and his goal as creating in Europe "a Balance of Impotence until Russia can rebuild." That is the joy of Safire's sonnets -- they are too much fun for even dovish dissenters to resist...
...white community is also divided. Polls indicate that De Klerk is slightly ahead of the white population at large in pushing for reform. Fully 31% of whites voted for the breakaway Conservative Party, the bastion of the verkramptes, or ultraconservatives. They object to any form of power sharing and resist not just negotiations but all attempts to pare the laws of segregation. At worst, they talk of secession and partition, retreating to a smaller but still pure Afrikaner land where whites would dominate. While the conservatives probably cannot block De Klerk from pursuing reform, their reactionary attitudes...