Word: coaxing
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Temples for Dollars. To coax more contributions, Egyptian Culture Minister Abdel Kader Hatem is offering ancient art works, even whole temples, in return for contributions toward the salvation of Abu Simbel. Nothing so vulgar as a price list has been published, and only governments or large and dignified institutions may apply. Five temples are on the bargain counter. Three of them: Dendur, dedicated by Caesar Augustus to two drowned heroes; Dabod. built by a Nubian king; and Taffeh, built during the Roman period, have already been dismantled and moved to safe, high ground. The other two: Ellesya, built by Thutmosis...
...rumors were right. Forty-eight hours after Volovchenko, 46, made his Pravda debut, he was named Russia's farm boss, succeeding the hapless Konstantin Pysin, who had held the job for less than a year. During his brief tenure, Pysin tried his best to coax more production from the collectivized peasantry. He even squeezed in a month-long tour of U.S. farm lands last September, hoping to pick up a few pointers. Alas, nothing seemed to help. The Soviet grain harvest last year was 16 million tons less than the quota under the seven-year plan, and Nikita Khrushchev...
...plots among 70,000 rural families. Another Bosch promise: economic diversification. Right now the Dominican Republic succeeds or fails with its sugar crop, which accounts for 70% of the country's export earnings of $140 million. So Bosch has pledged credits to small businessmen. He also hopes to coax more and more tourists to the country's four major hotels, its nightclubs, its cool, fragrant mountains...
Since the Soc Rel Department is also eager to have as many people as possible get degrees with Honors, one almost suspects that the Department's rules for concentration are designed to coax people into Honors by setting complicated regulations for non-Honors students. Only recently, for instance, the department eliminated distribution and concentration requirements for Honors candidates but retained them for others, so that the non-Honors student still has to worry about choosing the proper number of "P" and "S" courses and taking acceptable courses outside...
...source of Trumpeter Scherbaum's appeal is his mastery of the baroque trumpet. A shorter instrument than the modern trumpet, the baroque requires iron control and lungs like bellows. Even experts can rarely coax it into anything more than a banshee wail; Scherbaum produces a ringing, jubilant tone that is the joy of Bach lovers-and of Michael Haydn and Leopold Mozart fans as well. Of all the pieces he plays, the toughest is the Brandenburg No. 2: in the upper range it soars to G above high C, and wise conductors almost always cheat on the trumpet part...