Word: compel
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...party, it would be the G.O.P. Even so, I wish the Republicans would seize the opportunity presented to them by the Trent Lott fiasco to kick their 40-year addiction to race-baiting politics, make good on George W. Bush's promise to reach out to minorities and compel black voters like me to consider the G.O.P. I'm convinced that the Democratic Party's virtual monopoly on the black vote is bad for African Americans. It's the foundation of a demeaning form of political serfdom, a Plantation Politics that we will never be free of as long...
...three nations aren't really an axis; they have nothing like a formal alliance. (However, North Korea has exported versions of its Nodong missile to Iran and may have exchanged missile technology with Iraq.) And in a pinch, all three could justify their programs in terms that might not compel listeners to use the E word. Iran wants nukes (and has wanted them since the Shah was in power) partly because three of its neighbors--India, Russia, and Pakistan--have them. North Korea uses its weapons to blackmail the rest of the world into propping it up with food...
Fundamentally, Law must make his own choice whether or not to resign his current position and move to a different post in the church, or retire altogether. It is my hope that he will hold himself accountable to his own church’s dogma, which compels him to value his parishioners’ comfort in worship above himself. Following this morality will ultimately compel Law to remove himself from the Boston Archdiocese...
...commercial successes. (Indeed, consulting firm Analysys estimates that only one-third of people with 2.5G phones actually use data services.) William Clark, a research director at technology consulting firm Gartner, acknowledges that videoconferencing is a mindblower to anyone who has seen it. But he doubts the feature will compel millions of users to migrate, especially since Hutchison handsets are expected to begin retailing for as much as $800. "Video calls make great demos, but I'm skeptical," Clark says. "Companies are looking to cut costs. And lots of consumers use mobile phones while walking or driving, not the ideal...
...plotting a bomb attack in northern Europe were picked up in Italy, France and Malta last month; in Eindhoven last week a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin was apprehended for allegedly plotting a suicide strike - but nothing crippling to the terrorist enterprise as a whole. The evidence was compel- ling enough for the former director of the German intelligence service, Hans-Georg Wieck, to conclude that Hanning's warning was justified. "You don't make a statement like that just to make people vigilant, otherwise you lose credibility," he says. "They've got something." But what? And is it enough...