Word: coercion
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...believe that a man who is presented to the presidency must know the limitations of power, and know the limitations that must be placed on the exercise of the office of the President. He should understand that this country cannot be governed by coercion, and that it needs a special kind of leadership, which itself recognizes that the potential for leadership exists in every man and woman...
...rubles a year, for example, the Soviets during the 1950s had to make capital investment of 2,000,000 rubles; to achieve the same G.N.P. gains more recently, they have had to invest 3,300,000 rubles. The Communists have been used to raising capital by coercion, holding down wages, deferring consumption, and plowing back the produce of today's labor into plants and machines for tomorrow. But now they are also finding it politically necessary to divert more and more into consumption to quiet their clamoring people. One consequence is that Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia have...
...accepts aid, notes that some federal construction requires the temporary erection of a building-site sign with Lyndon B. Johnson's name in letters three inches high-but Upton agrees that this hardly hinders the academic program. President George Benson of Claremont Men's College sees no coercion in construction grants, notes that "once the building is up, there isn't much the Government can do about...
Auto Persuasion. There was little Buckley could do to rebut the testimony of the victim, Jack Watkins, and one of Buckley's fellow kidnapers who cooperated with the prosecution. Watkins had been picked out apparently because as an ex-con he seemed more open to coercion. This is how the prosecution told the story: Buckley and another man drove Watkins to a secluded road near Pascagoula, where they were met by three Klansmen in full hooded regalia. The gang urged Watkins to perjure himself and say that Bowers had been with him at the time of the bombing. When...
...fighting, withdrawal of all foreign military elements, and repatriation; a willingness on the part of Saigon to provide amnesty and open participation in the political processes of the South for members of the Viet Cong; a willingness on the part of the Viet Cong to renounce terror and coercion as its way of achieving political goals; and agreement on a procedure for resolving the question of reunification of the two Vietnams...