Word: coaxing
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...group in 1997. According to Grier, a HOT “use[s] forces exerted by light to grab and move microscopic objects.” The HOT technology improves on previous methods to arrange nanowires by stochastic methods—like the use of fluid pressure to coax nanowires into place. Grier wrote in an e-mail that applications of the HOT technique “range from performing surgery within living cells to fundamental investigations of many-body statistical physics”—the investigation of large-scale motion of many small particles...
...underway and that means a gale of jackets and ties for recruiting events. Yet ask people why they’re dressed in their Sunday best, and what you will get is a curious hesitance. It’s a little like interrogating a guilty child; you have to coax the answer out patiently...
...planner’s more curious suggestions is to “talk to complete strangers.” Only at a place like Harvard would administrators have to coax students into interacting with their peers. But the advice that follows shows that the administration is perhaps as socially inept as the student body. The planner continues: “Talk to complete strangers in the dining hall and the library.” The library seems an odd place to begin a conversation with someone you don’t know...
...trend in which grunge-ish bands crank up the elastic disco bass and coax fans to dance is rock's most pleasant development since Creed broke up. This bouncy tune about a woman with "a million ways to be cruel" is the catchy song of the summer...
...does at least have some sense of conserving the people’s money. This year the legislature pushed for a bill to subsidize a fictitious railroad with only the potential rights to carry cargo along a certain short route, with the hope that the bill would coax trucking companies into transporting lumber for a reasonable rate. Presumably it took all of Arnold’s business sense to realize that this idea was not a winner...