Word: coaxing
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...meshed the needs of the students with the wants of the professors," Sander notes. "You have to cajole and coax people to do things the school needs, and he has done that very well...
...three weeks by members of Solidarity and Rural Solidarity, a sign says SOLIDARITY IS MORE THAN JUST A NAME. In fact the united front put up by the Rzeszow chapter of Solidarity appears to have the authorities there stymied. On the one hand, they have been unable to coax the occupiers out. On the other, they are equally unwilling to grant their main demand: negotiations toward legitimizing the farmers' union. The result is a standoff. Last week TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik visited the sit-in at Rzeszow. His report...
...bind, and it gave a boost to Anderson. Like Carter's, Reagan's aides are convinced Anderson hurts the President more than their man. When New York State's Liberal Party last week endorsed Anderson and thus put him on the ballot where he could coax more votes from Carter, one Reagan aide was so pleased that he sent Anderson Strategist David Garth a bottle of champagne to celebrate...
...these tasks usually overlap. Most acquisition editors must be adept with the pencil as well as the fork. And they must not only coax a blocked author into action, but also negotiate with copyreaders, handle the details of jacket design and flap copy, and send galleys out to well-known writers in the hope they will respond with enthusiastic blurbs. Once such jobs are completed, editors must become in-house cheerleaders, urging their publicity, advertising and sales departments to make an extra effort on behalf of their books. The average editor is doing all this on at least a dozen...
...chief of staff, escorted his boss down one flight of Stairs from the former President's 70th-floor Plaza suite. Reagan was more than cordial to Ford as they met for 65 minutes. For the first time, Reagan revealed that he wanted to try once more to coax Ford into running with him. He had been alerted by aides weeks ago that Ford cronies seemed to be sending signals of a reviving interest on Ford's part, and his initiative was far from a deadline impulse inspired by the mood of the convention...