Word: compelling
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...main financial hubs, however, there is a risk that attempts to curtail overly optimistic investments by clamping down on credit will be ineffective, because local lenders may not heed Beijing's edicts. For a nation that was once completely command controlled, the central government has surprisingly few ways to compel regional lenders to obey orders. In Chengdu, for example, capital of Sichuan province 1,500 kilometers from Beijing, a branch of the China Construction Bank recently approved loans to upgrade a steel mill in the town of Panzhihua. Jiang Wen, chief of the bank's business-development department, says...
...warnings about terrorist threats did not raise any red flags within the Bush Administration, but the flimsy intelligence on Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction was sufficient to compel the U.S. to go to war at a cost of hundreds of American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars? The President and his staff are clearly hypocritical, if not criminally irresponsible. Ben Robertson Windsor, Canada...
...unwieldy. Robert Scoble is the most widely read of a new wave of Microsoft employees who have been allowed to write freely about the company in online journals, or blogs. His blog, Scobleizer, has repeatedly called for the company to voluntarily do what the Justice Department couldn't compel--split into separate, nimbler companies, a.k.a. Baby Bills. (Gates is vehemently opposed to the idea...
...Pennsylvania politics now current in the press. It is truly obvious that politics in Pennsylvania are not conducted with kid gloves. But to those interested in the organized basis of American politics, in its accepted and unblushing practices, in the forces, which periodically corral the "phantom public" and compel it to electoral articulation, and in the eagerness of men benefiting in party policies to continue party patrous, the revelations come as a welcome addition to knowledge...
...sports culture would not only improve social life on campus, but it would also compel better athletes to attend Harvard. This would allow the College to field better teams and make more money, which would in turn lead to even more fan support. And all this could be done without lowering academic standards...