Word: coax
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Only a year after its triumphant conquest of the moon, NASA can barely coax enough money out of Congress to continue existing programs. Its budget has been slashed to $3.3 billion for fiscal 1971 compared with peak spending of $5.2 billion in 1965. Total employment by NASA and its private contractors has dwindled from 420,000 in the heyday of the Apollo program to fewer than 145,000 today. Nor has NASA gotten significant support from the White House. "With the entire future and the entire universe before us," said President Nixon, outlining the Administration's cautious new approach...
Diplomatic Defensive. Such objections indicate the extent to which Nasser's action has put Israel-and the U.S. -on the diplomatic defensive. The U.S. is in something of a fix because it must now coax Israel to the peace table or be branded hypocritical for suggesting negotiations and then failing to deliver its client...
...cattle," explains the Rev. William McKinley Branch, the county's black voting chairman. Volunteer housewives in Kinston, N.C., decided the house-to-house approach was too slow. They invaded poolrooms and grocery stores in black neighborhoods, stopped pedestrians on sidewalks - and managed in one two-week period to coax 850 blacks off the streets to register...
...returning to political action for the first time since they dispersed in bitterness after the bloody Chicago convention. While some young extremists were still sporadically fire-bombing ROTC offices, many thousands more coalesced in the new activist movement. It was in effect a rapidly formed, massive new lobby to coax or coerce change from the system. Some of the more vociferous radicals had at least temporarily muted their voices, but more important, the changed context of the Indochinese war and the Kent and Jackson State killings suddenly brought a new legion of moderate, previously uncommitted Americans, most of them students...
...businessman's President has made several attempts to coax stock prices upward and offer an illusion of prosperity. On April 28, after the Dow closed at 724.33, the lowest since the day John Kennedy was killed. Nixon spoke of his absolute faith in the economy and said that he would, himself, be buying stocks now if he had money to spare. Presumably investors were to believe in Nixon and buy stocks, making the market rise . . . By May 5 the Dow Jones Industrials had fallen to 709.81. And the Dow closed Friday...