Word: compel
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...Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt spent last week on damage-control patrol, trying to placate anxious seniors and state lawmakers angry about footing the bill for Medicare's mistakes. Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe said Leavitt reassured her on Friday that the Federal Government would use its authority to compel insurance plans to reimburse the states directly. Maine has spent $5 million...
...question at the debate was: “Resolved: That the Federal Government should compel the state of Alabama to grant equal educational opportunities to Negroes.” Kennedy’s Winthrop team took the negative side...
...teachers feel indebted to their students for attending lecture, then students will feel a complementary sense of entitlement. Yet, let’s all put education in perspective: students pay to attain knowledge that is priceless in and of itself. This is the only financial incentive that should compel students to attend lectures...
...chairs are looking to “push-back” on Summers’ leadership style, the minutes show, and to compel Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby to be more transparent and inclusive of departments in his decision-making...
Largely using the Freedom of Information Act to compel the government to turn over papers, Wilson has dug up official records of more than 80 contacts he had with CIA officials--many of them high ranking--during the period in question. Those documents show that prosecutors and the CIA officials assisting them were aware of the contacts. The foreman of the jury that found Wilson guilty of selling C-4 to Libya, which was subject to a total U.S. arms embargo at the time, told ABC News earlier this year, "If we had known [of Wilson's CIA links...