Word: coax
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela have indeed resolved the Lockerbie deadlock, Washington faces a problem -- how to contain Muammar Ghaddafi. The British and South African leaders on Friday expressed confidence that a discreet South African diplomatic mission would coax Ghaddafi into surrendering for trial two Libyan intelligence agents accused of bombing Pan Am flight 103 -- which would end 10 years of sanctions. ?Ghaddafi?s refusal to cooperate gave the U.S. a reason to keep Libya boxed in,? says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. ?Those sanctions proved to be a critical factor in neutralizing one of the world?s most dangerous...
...with most major problems of the late 20th century, it's the media's fault. Each February, a cabal of toy hawkers and toy reporters huddle at Toy Fair in (where else?) New York City. The hawkers try to coax the reporters into naming their toy the "hottest." Virtually every newspaper and TV station runs some version of this hot-new-toy story, which entices visually and appeals to journalism's need to find what's next. This has happened before (more about Cabbage Patch Kids in a minute), but the creation of the Furby--more important, the invention...
Bill Clinton's portfolio is looking a little heavily exposed in the Mideast, but the President Tuesday kept on investing political capital in pursuit of a prestige-enhancing peace pact. But even if Clinton and Jordan's ailing King Hussein -- expected to arrive on Tuesday -- manage to coax the unenthusiastic partners to cut a deal, it's unlikely to provide a solution to the troubled region's conflict...
...away, but various groups on campus are already preparing for the annual circus that will surround Harvard this June. The year-book committee is signing up seniors to have portraits taken. Elections are under way for Harvard and Radcliffe Class Marshals. And soon, the College will start trying to coax students to give to the Senior Gift Fund...
...Gritz, who has led a number of unofficial guerrilla missions into Vietnam in search of U.S. POWs, hopes to coax Rudolph to surrender by getting him a lawyer and putting the FBI's $1 million reward into a defense fund, the Charlotte Observer reports. He has previously helped mediate the Ruby Ridge and Montana Freemen standoffs. Federal agents searching for Rudolph don't plan to cooperate with Gritz, but they won't order him out of the area either -- after six frustrating months searching for Rudolph, they could use any help they...