Word: compellingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July, 1990 letter to Allen, Gerstein requested that the state enforce the rules and compel Harvard to submit the data missing from the University's Form PC for fiscal...
EVEN IF THE EXPLOsion does not occur, U.S. planners, like those at NATO, are putting together blueprints for what one of them calls "air power to compel behavior." Such plans would provide a way to make Serbia suffer for its aggression in Bosnia by bombing Serbia's power plants, fuel dumps, railway lines and bridges, the kind of infrastructure war the U.S. used to soften up Iraq. Cheney touched on this possible course at the NATO meeting last week. "The Secretary is not proposing going ahead with this stuff," says one of his aides, "but he wants NATO to know...
...early 1920s, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell effectively banned Black students from the University by making living in the first-year dormitories mandatory. Lowell said he could not compel a white student to live with a Black student, so the Black students were forced to find other living arrangements, making them unable to enroll as first-year students. Alumni and civic leaders protested Lowell's rule and eventually Lowell rescinded...
...often tempting to play God. If students aren't behaving ideally, let's compel them to change their ways. It's fast; it's effective. But in the case of the housing system, demanding change despite students' wishes ends up helping nobody...
Alan is our backbone. He is our trusted friend and invaluable advisor. The fact that the Standing Committee for Dramatic Arts may compel Alan to leave shows a great lack of concern for the welfare of student theater at Harvard...