Word: coaxing
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...White House as David Stockman passed out photocopied sets of his revised 1984 budget figures. One page was missing. "The Xerox machine gagged on the numbers," he quipped. The machine had good reason. Stockman had put together the deepest cuts in social spending that the Administration could hope to coax out of Congress with the most optimistic assumptions it could make about economic growth and job creation, and the bottom line was still appalling: a fiscal 1984 deficit of about $155 billion...
Harvard's chances weren't helped any by Saturday's game. Despite dominating play and posting a season-high 24 penalty corners, the stick women couldn't coax ball across the Yale goal line...
Nixon believes that the U.S. can coax the Chinese in the right direction by providing them with Western technology. He hastens to add: "That does not necessarily mean military technology. We should reduce the profile of our military partnership with them. There is no point in having American Secretaries of Defense running over there all the time, putting on their hard hats and huffing and puffing. [Former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown visited China in 1980, and Caspar Weinberger wants to go.] For one thing, that kind of display doesn't scare the Russians; it just makes them more...
Owners of telephone answering machines have long had a vexing problem: many people hang up as soon as they hear a recorded response. Celebrity Voices, a North Hollywood, Calif., firm, thinks that its taped impersonations of famous people might be a humorous way to coax callers into leaving a message. Prices for the personalized recordings are $29.95 and up. Since the company started business in April, it has taken orders worth more than...
Mortal danger remains a remote but real possibility. Wilkinson collars a drunk driver of awesome size and manages to coax him to jail. Later that night, the prisoner wakes up in his cell and rips the toilet out of the wall with his bare hands. At his trial, the man explains what happened: "A little energized particle broke off a star in a galaxy somewhere far away and shot down and came through the open window, and when it hit the toilet, BOOM, the whole thing blew up. I could have been killed...