Word: coax
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...Corp., a cheesecake-and-underwear conglomerate. The stock price has more than doubled. It fairly trumpeted its third-quarter results, tooting that compared with last year, profits were up 156%, to $7.8 million on sales of $131 million. From here, Frankfort wants to use the same model overseas and coax Coach onto as many Japanese arms...
...plot thickens when Adam begins to give "everything" to both of Lucy's sisters as well. He provides the scholarly Charlotte, the youngest Owens sister, with passionate romance and allows eldest sister Alice the thoughtless affair that she craves. He even manages to help Lucy's brother David coax his stubborn girlfriend Laura into bed. Frances O'Connor's portrayal of Laura is a highpoint of the film. O'Connor (Bedazzled, Mansfield Park) recently won a Golden Globe for her performance in the television miniseries "Madame Bovary" and in Adam, she makes Laura at once intelligent and exciting. About Adam...
...Koreas - a scenario from which its stands to benefit both economically and strategically. Last year, shortly before his meeting with President Kim, the North Korean "Dear Leader" made a rare foreign trip, spending a week in consultation with Chinese leaders in Beijing. The Chinese are believed to have helped coax the diplomatically reclusive Kim Jong Il to pursue talks with South Korea and the West. And Korea watchers will watch closely to see whether the North Korean Kim heads for Beijing any time soon. After all, China is the closest thing North Korea has to a powerful friend...
...withdrawing its support from him. Concerned that Estrada had not fully understood the finality of the call, Reyes asked his deputy, General Jose Calimlim, to follow up the phone call with a personal visit. Calimlim, a trusted former aide-de-camp to Estrada, was a person who could perhaps coax him through pakikisama (camaraderie), the gentle pressure of "a friend, not an enemy...
Parents can mark their children's stage in life by the parties they have. When they're little, we coax them into pointy hats and suffer through Barney-themed birthdays; then come the Chuck E. Cheese years, followed by the slumber-party era. Parents gamely go with the flow, because we know that social occasions are extremely important to kids. But a new party concept sweeping the teen circuit--the coed sleepover--has parents wondering when to say, "Enough already...