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...proposed for next week could send prices soaring if Iraq failed to resume production at full quota - because the impact of Iraq's cutback has not yet been felt on the world market. Yamani warned that a sharp spike would work in Iraq's favor, since it would compel oil companies to pay a 40-cents-a-barrel surcharge imposed by Baghdad in violation of the sanctions regime...
Extending a 1989 decision to restrict investment in tobacco-related products, the ACSR considered measures that called on companies themselves to restrict their sales to tobacco producing companies. The ACSR voted 8-1-0 to compel H.B. Fuller to, in the words of the proposal, "adopt a policy not to sell its adhesives to any tobacco related company when they will be used in the production of cigarettes...
...very basic level, the concept of taking over a building is in conflict with a culture of dialogue. The proper use of demonstrations and rallies is to promote discourse that might otherwise have been flagging, to compel students and administrators to confront the issue and consider where they stand. Occupying a building is of a different breed, and just because a protest is non-violent doesn't mean it's non-coercive. To the extent that it interferes with the university, that it harasses and annoys instead of persuades, the protest represents coercion rather than dialogue. "We get our policy...
...Republicans filed a lawsuit last week in Leon County to compel 14 predominantly Republican counties to get these ballots counted. The Republicans contend that the Democrats had a systematic plan to disenfranchise military voters; the Democrats say they were only making sure that illegal ballots were not counted. The argument that military voters should not be disenfranchised because of factors beyond their control is a solid one, and it has great p.r. value. The Leon County judge listened patiently to the Bush arguments on Friday but then expressed skepticism about whether there was much he could do at this point...
...contrast, early decision applications--used by most colleges--are binding and compel accepted students to attend in the fall...