Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kindergarten, the day is carefully divided into time for listening, playing, coloring, snacking and napping. Middle-class children, raised by parents who worship their watches, adapt easily to this regimen. But for many disadvantaged inner-city youngsters, the structure of the school day apparently seems totally unfamiliar. They often resist the idea that they should stop doing one thing simply because it is time to do something else...
Fears that higher education faces budgets cuts are justified. Paleologos said. "It's a difficult target to resist for people who have the knives out," he said...
...Status is an influence at every level. We resist the notion that it matters, but it's true. You can't escape it. You see it in restaurants -- not just in New York. People seem willing to pay any amount to be seen at this week's restaurant of the century. It's all part of what I call plutography: depicting the acts of the rich. They not only want to be seen at this week's restaurant of the century, they want to be embraced by the owner. But status isn't only to do with the rich. Status...
...hopes for an equitable, moderate, if not wholly popular solution are overshadowed by charges of unfairness when only certain houses participate. Is it possible to resist charges of hypocrisy when masters say, in essence, "Diversity is good in the houses, but only in some of the houses...
...effective, any law regulating semiautomatic assault rifles would have to be federal. It would make no sense to ban such weapons in, say, California, if they could be legally purchased in neighboring Arizona or Oregon. But tens of millions of Americans -- not to mention the Bush Administration -- resist the thought of giving Washington that much power over citizens' lives...