Word: compellingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suit has since been dismissed, but the charges live on, putting the city in an uproar and prompting a new look at racism in baseball. Atlanta Braves executive Hank Aaron called for an investigation. The N.A.A.C.P. hopes to use the controversy to compel Schott to hire more minorities; of 45 front-office staff, only one Red is black. Jesse Jackson has talked with Schott and wants to discuss hiring practices with other baseball-team owners as well...
Right now it is impractical and unrealistic to compel nations to supply troops for offensive action in Somalia, such as the Gulf War. Yet it seems reasonable to require that all members contribute to humanitarian efforts...
...morally wrong for the state, which has been entrusted with a monopoly on the legal use of force to compel citizen A to deal with citizen B, if A doesn't want...
...media mogul plans to create a new system of private schooling that he hopes will produce a smarter generation of American kids -- and make him and his partners a profit as well. He also expects to inspire -- indeed, compel -- the existing public school system to change the way it instills knowledge. "Kids today are disconnected from the education process," says Whittle. "We need to figure out how they are motivated and tap into that." At this point Whittle's enterprise is little more than an ambitious blue-sky notion, yet it is attracting considerable interest and some high-level talent...
...Serb, turned up hysterical and penniless in Belgrade last week with her three-year-old son, having fled the Bosnian village of Kastilj. Her husband, a member of a militia protecting the self-proclaimed Serbian state within Bosnia, had told her, "Just get out, go anywhere." She tried to compel her 13-year-old son to leave with her, but he refused. "If Father is killed here," the boy said, "I want to die with him." Just recounting that story reduces the woman to tears...