Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...with reform proposals. But the scramble is unlikely to translate into a real overhaul. While both parties are sanctimoniously mouthing the language of reform, their real objective is to undercut their opponent's fund-raising advantages while protecting their own. Since Republicans raise more money from private contributors, they resist spending limits on congressional campaigns. Because Democrats get more cash from political-action committees, they oppose G.O.P. efforts to abolish PACs...
...soup, redolent of the shtetlach of Thomas' Jewish forebears, speaks for itself. The melody, from Anton Bruckner's sixth symphony, needs no elaboration either, but Thomas can no more resist parsing a composer's score than he can eclipse the twinkle in his brown eyes...
...WERE SAYING? Argentina's President, Carlos Saul Menem, has never shown a sustained attention span for details. So a top aide was surprised during a recent private meeting to find the President nodding vigorously and taking copious notes. When Menem was called from the room, the aide could not resist peeking at what the President had written. What he found was Menem's ideal lineup for a local soccer team...
While debates over college curriculum get the most attention, professors generally can resist or subvert the most wrongheaded changes and students generally have mature enough judgment to sort out the arguments. Elementary- and secondary-school curriculums reach a far broader segment at a far more / impressionable age, and political expediency more often wins over intellectual honesty. Exchanges have been vituperative in New York, where a state task force concluded that "African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans have all been victims of an intellectual and educational oppression . . . Negative characterizations, or the absence of positive references, have...
...could resist the temptation? The ever solicitous Citibank dangled before me in the autumn mail an offer of a preapproved Visa card that would grant one frequent-flyer mile on American Airlines for each dollar charged. The lure of these two American obsessions -- credit and free travel -- proved irresistible, so I mailed the form and soon received cards for my wife and me. A month later, after we had rung up more than $4,200 in charges (about 20% of what would be needed for a free round-trip domestic ticket), my wife pulled out the card to purchase...