Word: coaxing
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...which the chief is inundated with baby showers. Despite her badge, Watson was mostly involuntarily shielded from hazardous duty. Her brief rotation to the SWAT team meant that she worked the radio. Her husband Robert, seemingly content with his own status as a police sergeant, had to coax her into bucking for each promotion. In 1980, when as a detective she was prematurely transferred out of the burglary division because she was a woman, Watson retaliated by taking the civil-service exam for lieutenant. She says, "I had extreme determination that I would be promoted out of that situation...
David Boudreau stood outside the Somerville Loews movie theatre, trying to coax his two young sons away from the glitzy poster advertising Wednesday's opening of Ford Fairlane...
...none of this is enough to suggest that we should simply burn our books and flood the classroom with TV monitors. Just because an infant cannot speak, we do not talk to him entirely in "goos" and "aahs"; rather, we coax him, gradually, into speech, and then into higher and more complex speech. That, in fact, is the definition of education: to draw out, to teach children not what they know but what they do not know; to rescue them, as Cicero had it, from the tyranny of the present. The problem with visuals is not just that they bombard...
...short term, however, competition promises to be education's biggest problem. As Gorbachev tries to coax results from perestroika, and the East European nations struggle to revitalize their economies after 40 years of Communist rule, schools will have to vie with industry and agriculture for scarce resources. But for the moment at least, teachers and pupils seem thrilled by their new freedom to think, speak and seek the truth now that the ghosts of Marx and Lenin have been expelled from the classroom...
...seen their bonuses evaporate because of poor profits, and up to 10% of their salaries escrowed pending the success of a cost-cutting program, Chrysler's top 100 executives are now being formally "encouraged" by Chairman Lee Iacocca to buy the company's weak stock. The idea is to coax managers to increase their stake in the company's performance...