Word: compelling
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...centerpiece of Bush's new strategy is to somehow compel the Iraqis to take a variety of self-starting steps - politically, militarily, economically - that they have not to date. But there is no apparent mechanism to compel them to do so. The Study group proposed that Bush threaten to quickly reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq as a way to compel the Iraqis to stand up; but Bush has instead decided to simply pour more troops in to help them stand...
...Democrats on the commission pushed for a deadline, arguing that only the unequivocal reality of a U.S. withdrawal would compel the Iraqi government to get its house in order and crack down on the militias and death squads tearing the country apart. But Baker reportedly opposed that proposal, stressing, among other factors, a common refrain of President Bush's: as David Sanger summed it up in The New York Times, "any firm deadline would be an invitation to insurgents and sectarian groups to bide their time until the last Americans were withdrawn, then seek to overthrow the government...
...Cinema v?rit? translates as movie truth, but the subject's story doesn't have to be true; it only has to compel the viewer to keep watching. Anyway, the lies or evasions people bring to explanations of their lives can be as revealing of their real personalities (if there are such things) as the truth (if that even exists). And in Edith and Edie Beale, Albert and David found a mother-daughter act eager to act out their lifelong psychodrama. As Edie, who was 56 when the movie was shot, confides to the brothers about her dreams of nightclub stardom...
...capturing the script-dictated images of commercialization, mass consumerism, and varying amounts of dead cows. However, the incessant, heavy-handed dialogue and the poor character development doom this film to be a disgraceful feature rather than a respectable documentary. The attempt at a creative and educational film that would compel America to change its ways results in a badly written guilt trip that lasts just under two hours. On the whole, each actor in the ensemble cast does his best with the role he is given, however unnatural his lines or his character. Greg Kinnear (“Little Miss...
...initiatives that have begun to address these shortcomings haven’t been cheap—and more will be needed to make further progress. Harvard’s president must compel the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to spend its precious dollars on priorities that the Faculty itself might not share. (In addition, the president must be willing to spend his or her own discretionary funding on undergraduates, as Summers did on several occasions.) Conversely, FAS’ bleak financial outlook must not justify an attempt to cut existing programs, let alone hamper new ones?...