Word: compellation
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...local residents, this new market could be a powerful force against the present gentrification of the Square. Instead of cellular phone stores and expensive fashion boutiques, we could have half a dozen new Tommy’s. The resulting changes to zoning and property values might even compel other student-friendly business to migrate from Central Square to more convenient locations here...
...that time Rogge and the other members of the Olympic committee were aware that the Canadian Olympic Association had filed an application before the court of Arbitration for Sport, a non-Olympic body, asking the court to hear its request for a second gold medal and to compel the pairs judges to testify. The court agreed to hear the case on Friday. That threatened to carry the dispute to a forum beyond the control of the committee and the I.S.U. On Friday morning the nine-member I.O.C. board ratified the I.S.U. plan by a 7-1 vote. China opposed...
...large and mid-size companies, AMR Research of Boston found that about one-third were using some form of online exchange. Another third expected to get involved in the next few years. The businesses investing most heavily in B2B were the largest ones, with the clout to compel smaller partners to follow them into cyberspace. Says AMR's John Bermudez: "Companies have been looking for a long time to see if they could do anything to streamline the supply chain. And there's absolutely no way of doing it without the Internet...
...notion of soldiers in fatigues carrying M-16s at the Mall of America may not have the same effect. Tim Edgar, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, says soldiers shouldn't be used for police work because they are not trained for it: using overwhelming force to compel compliance by an enemy is different, he says, from the kind of negotiations engaged in regularly by most law-enforcement agencies. Military traditionalists have a problem with the idea too: they are worried that an overemphasis on homeland defense will dilute U.S. ability to wage war overseas...
Naipaul was no doubt delighted last month to discover the Nobel bladders temporarily empty, when the committee phoned him at his home in England to award him the million-dollar annual prize, “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.” Speculation immediately brewed over whether the citation meant to acclaim the writer’s anti-Muslim travelogues, or his novels and stories, which have dealt with colonial subjects in times of indigence, pathos and humor. Naipaul’s most recent...