Word: compeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...busing, the absence of any consistent educational gains, the deleterious psychological impact upon black children, and the increased polarization of the races." These shortcomings, in addition to busing's superficial and counterproductive nature, the use of force it involves, and its reliance on implicitly racist quotas and educational theories, compel one to reject busing as a means of achieving racial harmony and improving education...
...mysteries are already beginning to take on the same character for many people as questions like "What ever happened to Amelia Earhart?". In addition, the integration of serious research and solid evidence with pure fantasy has weakened the appeal of many legitimate investigators. But it may be possible to compel Congress to reopen the cases, just by the weight of evidence already uncovered. One Congressman, Texas Democrat Henry Gonzales, has already called for such a step. This should be the primary objective of all researchers. Independent investigations can only pose the questions. If some form of a real resolution...
...comes home from work sometime after midnight, having done his time on the middle shift 1 p.m. to midnight at the mill. Apparently he cannot bring himself to go to bed; the heat, the lean and the tension of his work do not allow him to sleep, but instead compel him to turn on an all night local country music station, which he plass so loud that no one else in the house is able to sleep either. Finally, usually around dawn, Paul's father drops off to sleep in a chair, even though the music from she radio...
Bleak though this project now seems, the best hope for halting Honeywell's destructive and murderous endeavors is still to strive toward creating a movement among employees which would compel the organization to end its manufacture of weapons. In the interim, Harvard must be reminded that unprincipled alliances, like the one it has established with Honeywell, no matter how limited, are always unacceptable...
...probably list such actions as Sunday closings of gas stations, federal regulation of hours of commercial businesses, forced reductions in commercial lighting and regulation of temperatures in commercial and public buildings. But the bill would only give the Federal Energy Administration power to order those standards; it would not compel the agency to do so. There is at least some danger that the final product will be a mishmash of Ford's tariff and a number of halfway conservation rules that would raise prices without cutting imports much...