The banks should thus be able to resist a credit crunch of the kind that crippled America's economy.
Posada resisted taking credit for Vaughn's having correcting the hitch, noting Vaughn's history of success against Wells (30 for 66,.455 average with 9 home runs).
For over a decade, admissions-selective universities (e.g. not the University of Phoenix) resisted giving credit for their overwhelmingly popular online courses.
Nevertheless, he could not resist a reference to our "credit card bill", in an echo of Thatcher's pre-Keynesian belief that a nation, like a household, should cut back at just the moment when it is important that central governments should fill the gap caused by retrenchment in the private sector, and not cut back.
Stuart Vyse, a psychology professor at Connecticut College and the author of a new book on the psychology of credit cards, said that "immediate choices are extremely powerful and difficult to resist" and that credit cards play into that desire for immediate gratification.
When such a sweet deal is on offer, it is tough to resist.(Photo credit: AFP).
But in the current political alignment, the temptation for the opposition to slam the president for "losing Iran" if sanctions don't produce quick results may be too strong to resist.(Photo credit: AFP).
Oh, the shopping... Exhibitors sell at discounts, and it can be a real test of willpower to resist maxing out credit cards.
Julia Marks started off, like a lot of people, with a fairly modest student loan, although she resisted several credit-card offers throughout her university career.
In April, its research showed that many consumers tried to resist the lure of credit cards "but were eventually worn down by continual marketing", especially when companies sent them targeted mailing shots pre-approving them for cards.
