Word: coax
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...Jangi uncorked a final fusillade from cannons, multibarrel rocket launchers, mortars and fixed machine guns. Alliance troops found hundreds of Taliban fighters--most of them Arab and Pakistani volunteers--holed up in a girls' high school. They were zealots, primed for death: after the Alliance commanders failed to coax them into surrender, a two-hour fire fight broke out, and all the Taliban troops were killed or captured. It was their last stand. The Taliban had set up no defenses inside Mazar, and by nightfall Friday the Alliance stormed the city. Dostum's men swept the streets, "trying to find...
Eight years after its grand opening in New York, Crunch has managed to coax the ravers and assorted club-types off of the dancefloor and onto the treadmill. Naturally, Crunch has had the most success in dance-hotspots San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami and Atlanta. Cardio Strip was born in LA’s Sunset Strip alongside other favorites such as “Co-Ed Action Wrestling” and “Cyked” Yoga Cycling. Instructors are of all sorts, from drag queens to wannabe rappers, with names like Laurent and Madonna...
...Ridge won't have much more authority than Clarke did. Ridge, like Clarke, won't be able to force agencies to spend more on homeland defense. The draft Executive Order circulated last week says the agencies will "retain" that control. Ridge will be able only to coordinate activities and coax other agencies into spending money on his cause. And instead of one person overseeing the fight against terrorism at home and abroad, there will now be two. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was willing to let Ridge run the war in the U.S. against terrorists. But she insisted that control...
...Macedonia's parliament will be given 45 days to adopt the political agreement expected next Monday. And during that time, NATO plans to coax the guerrillas into standing down and disarming. Of course, there are grounds to believe the guerrillas may be willing to do this: For a "Greater Albania" insurgency exported from neighboring Kosovo, they will have done extraordinarily well if they keep the deal. Most important, it will have made them an indispensable factor in the stability of Macedonian political life - this despite their habit of driving non-Albanians out of the villages they've captured. Guerrilla commanders...
...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...