Word: coax
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...peace mandate. Facing certain defeat in his efforts to stop Israel's parliament from adopting a motion to force new elections, the Israeli prime minister shocked his opponents Tuesday by simply calling a new election himself after serving only 18 months of his four-year term. Having failed to coax hawkish opposition leader Ariel Sharon into a national unity government, Barak found his minority government isolated in the legislature. By calling new elections, he's opted for a referendum on how Israel should respond to the political crisis brought on by the collapse of the peace process. But his chances...
Kaelin wants to try to coax cancerous cells to commit suicide by giving them very high levels of the molecule that turns on p53 and p73. No one had thought of doing this before because scientists thought that the cell suicide machinery was broken in cancers. But now it seems that there is an alternative cell suicide machinery that cancer overlooks...
...house in Paris covered with vines" that the storybook Madeline kept the peace - but she didn't have to contend with two peoples who'd been at each other's throats for a half-century. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright managed to coax Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat into the same room for crisis talks in Paris on Wednesday, after Arafat had initially demanded an international inquiry into the recent wave of violence as his price. But back home, the killings continued, with fierce battles raging in Gaza and the West Bank claiming...
...prod Milosevic into leaving, but after last year's bombings they don't exactly wield much influence in Belgrade. Their best bet for diplomatic leverage remains Moscow, which played the key role in persuading the Serb strongman to back down in Kosovo. Diplomatic efforts are reportedly afoot to coax Milosevic into leaving Serbia and seeking asylum either in Russia or Belarus to avoid prosecution in the Hague. But that may be overstating his immediate crisis - after all, Kostunica has stated that he's not interested in sending Milosevic for trial as a war criminal (a demand that has little resonance...
...networks to carry the presidential debates Bush had proposed on NBC and CNN, W.'s aides turned to John McCain, chairman of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, for help. Bush wanted McCain and his House counterpart, Tom Bliley, to use their influence with the networks their committees oversee to coax them into broadcasting their rivals' programming. McCain declined. After all, it was only seven months ago that Bush, in a desperate battle to win the Republican nomination, vilified "Chairman McCain" for allegedly misusing his position to do favors for friends and contributors. McCain and Bush have since reconciled, and McCain...