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...former research chief for the Labor Party who first began helping Wilson in 1955. An economist (as is Wilson), Shore becomes the youngest member of the Cabinet. In the past, he was eager to nationalize more British industry; as an M.P., he even introduced a somewhat peevish bill to compel company directors to divulge their incomes. But Shore's current prescription for economic uplift is hard to fault. Last week he was touting "the three Rs"-"Reorganizing industry, getting rid of weakness; Retraining, getting more skilled people; Re-equipment, getting better machinery...
Thomas Jefferson was right: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical...
Harvard went to court last January to compel the University Road Real Estate Trust to honor a 1956 option agreement to sell the building, located at 122 Mt. Auburn St. Earlier this week, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Edward F. Hennessy told the lawyers for both parties that he would shortly issue a ruling in favour of Harvard...
Walzer said that the most immediate problem is to compel the United States government to take unilateral action in ending the war. He dismissed the idea that American society would have to undergo "radical transformation...
...pretention; a desire not just to be something but to appear as something, to appear as something greater perhaps than one actually was; the desire to play a role for the sake of playing a role, and to be seen by others as playing it; a desire to compel others to associate themselves with the ritual of self-esteem and self-glorification that was now becoming a regular feature of the rhetoric of American public life...