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But in this case it's impossible to resist, for in the word "fad" we have the entire history of Avis--and the recent history of U.S. business--summed up in just three letters.
It gave the Web site address, so I couldn't resist spending a little time there examining photos of her "purses and totes," each one "adorned with the unique rose-bordered label that says 'Made especially for you by Monica.
This somehow allowed the plants to resist adverse weather conditions and even the grape plague, phylloxera, that decimated vines all over Europe in the second half of the 19th century.
As for the Margalit Fox article you mention, I did read it and found it an interesting summary of what we might call "the linguist's dilemma": People want linguists to tell them how to be correct, but at the same time, they resist intervention, taking the attitude, "Who are you to tell me what to do?"
strains in the United States will resist both penicillin and erythromycin, according to a recent prediction from the Harvard School of Public Health.