Word: coax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...edited out). As the outtakes were shown to the jury and to TV audiences watching the trial live on Cable News Network, viewers got a unique chance to see how a story is put together and to second-guess CBS's editorial judgment. They watched the Rather team coax witnesses, stage a confrontation and repeat questions until it got the best camera angles or the most vividly phrased answers; they heard Rather testify that people who do not return phone calls are probably guilty...
...understands all this and the resolution of the play lies in whether or not he can coax Hallie back out of his shell. Hallie needs Sam's friendship more than ever. And underneath Sam's attempt to shield Hallie from the cruelty of the world is his own burning need to prove that whites and Blacks can live peacefully together...
...Mobil Oil Corp. are building a 500-mile system that will cost a total of about $1.2 billion. That system, in which Continental Resources Co. also has an interest, is to be finished in the third quarter of next year. The Shell-Mobil project alone could coax out an extra 280 million bbl. and boost output by about...
...White House as David Stockman passed out photocopied sets of his revised 1984 budget figures. One page was missing. "The Xerox machine gagged on the numbers," he quipped. The machine had good reason. Stockman had put together the deepest cuts in social spending that the Administration could hope to coax out of Congress with the most optimistic assumptions it could make about economic growth and job creation, and the bottom line was still appalling: a fiscal 1984 deficit of about $155 billion...
Harvard's chances weren't helped any by Saturday's game. Despite dominating play and posting a season-high 24 penalty corners, the stick women couldn't coax ball across the Yale goal line...