Word: coax
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...President's invoking of the Almighty may not have been coincidental. After all, he had been trying to coax both sides toward an elusive agreement in which a man-made set of laws would apply in different parts of a city deemed holy by the three great monotheistic faiths...
...raising a few eyebrows in Washington. Indeed, he's managed to turn some key European NATO members against Washington's proposed National Missile Defense system by convincing them it could spark a dangerous new arms race; now he plans to head for North Korea next month, partly to coax concessions out of the "rogue state" whose missile capability is Exhibit A in Washington's case for going ahead. Not content to simply say "nyet," Putin's gone a step further by suggesting joint Russian-U.S. deployment of an alternative missile defense that would attack rogue missiles immediately after takeoff...
...system simply doesn't work, as a number of critics and observers believe. And the impression that its technological viability remains unproven could help President Clinton out of a tight spot. Although he's backed the politically popular National Missile Defense plan, he's been unable to coax the Russians into renegotiating the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which forbids its deployment, leaving Washington facing the choice of backing off from the system or tearing up a key arms control agreement. When he first endorsed National Missile Defense in principle, President Clinton punted that issue three years forward pending the outcome...
...prescribed by the Good Friday Agreement, Trimble has faced a growing mutiny within his own ranks over sharing the reins of government with the Sinn Fein while their IRA allies still have access to arms. So, while the last episode had Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams desperately trying to coax a disarmament gesture out of his hard men, the dramatic spotlight now shifts to Trimble's efforts to placate his own skeptics...
Jackson, the head coach of the Lakers, has always had an appealingly philosophical approach toward coaching, one that can coax five NBA-size egos into performing like a marching band at full sprint. "All of us had flashes of this sense of oneness--making love, creating a work of art," he says in his autobiography, Sacred Hoops, "when we're completely immersed in the moment, inseparable from what we're doing. This kind of experience happens all the time on the basketball floor...