Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...cope with what has happened," says Hasan al-Ebraheem, "many have come to think of this time as a temporary setback, like an earthquake. Psychologically, people will want to recreate the past as exactly as they can in order to forget what has happened. That is what we must resist. This is a golden opportunity, the invasion's silver lining. If we give in to sentiment and let the old ways come back while saying that we'll reach the hard issues later, we will never reach them...
...Build communities. When it is time to move homeless people into permanent housing, do not isolate them. City officials must resist the temptation to congratulate themselves with signs on the buildings, like those that have appeared in New York City, that in essence announce that this is where formerly homeless people live. Homelessness carries a terrible stigma, particularly for children. Its veterans must be allowed to return to the community without carrying that stigma with them...
...Dayton-based computer maker NCR for $6 billion. When NCR rejected the initial, friendly offer, its suitor shocked the business world once more by launching a hostile takeover attempt. In a face- to-face showdown with AT&T's board members in New York City, NCR management vowed to resist. But industry analysts generally believe that the big telecommunications firm will ultimately prevail, strengthening NCR in the long run. Says Maria Lewis of Shearson Lehman Bros.: "AT&T would make an ideal corporate parent." Still, the deal carries enormous financial risks for AT&T, which had tried to build...
...still imagined uniformed do-gooders who tie knots and help old folks across the street. One solution: the Scout Handbook was revised to show more minority scouts in action and offer advice on such off-campground problems as AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, child abuse and how to resist sexual molesters...
...after 12 months, 15 months, an embargo will indeed begin to "bite." If applied for long enough, the will of the Iraqis to resist will decline steadily, the chances of Hussein's overthrow will rise and the potential impact of a desperate Iraqi attack anywhere will be less and less. Withdrawal from Kuwait and submission to other terms--e.g. the dismantling of nuclear development projects--should follow with capitulation...