We should not, and cannot, resist improvements in standards in procedural safeguards.
The session starts with Bonci expanding on his philosophy, explaining that, over the last 100 years, the pizza has resisted improvement.
Memories can be strengthened with time and practice, practice, practice, but if there's one part of the system that resists improvement, it's our buffers, the size of our working memory on which a few items can be temporarily cached.
Last fall, R. Eden Martin, a lawyer from a powerful business group here, wrote a blunt memorandum to Arne Duncan, the chief executive of the Chicago public schools, warning that dozens of failing schools that had resisted improvement after years on an academic watch list would soon face a takeover under federal law.
For too long, complacent educators and policymakers have resisted improvement and relied on a public that was mostly satisfied with public schooling.
Worse, in resisting improvements in accountability, they undermine public confidence in the integrity of the bankruptcy process.
And they fiercely resisted improvements in fuel efficiency standards, which were finally raised by Congress last December for the first time since 1975.
Famously she resisted cosmetic improvement throughout her life.
Indicators that resisted significant improvement over that period included the number of women having Pap smears, infant mortality rates and the number of cases of fatal domestic violence.
"You've got this old-school guard on the Upper West Side, and their mission has always been to resist change or improvement," Mr. Heddings said.
