Word: compels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, "must do more" types in the activist circles of Harvard-Radcliffe have called for individual PBHA programs to compel volunteers to think harder about the deeper social problems at work in the communities they serve. They have decried what they see as a lack of deeper consideration in some programs, where volunteers teach, tutor, mentor and otherwise serve without concern for healing the wounds they bandage...
...director Kasi Lemmons invades Faulkner-McCullers territory and makes it her own. There are a few visual and character cliches, and we wish that, just once in movies, a fortune teller's dire prophecy would not automatically come true. But the folks here believe in its power, and they compel the viewer to abandon skepticism, to hide with Eve in the Batiste closet, where skeletons whisper vengeance...
...other words, pragmatic solidarity patterns do not compel their non-natal members to retreat from the broader culture-the manufactured culture-of the American national society. Rather, pragmatic solidarity patterns permit and encourage natal-ethnic members to be both American-and-Irish, American-and-Jewish...
Last year, the company made "exploding offers" on campus-which compel students to reply within a certain time frame-and required them to respond by dates that fell before March...
...gave U.S. diplomats the name of the hotel Trie was holed up in, and they passed that along to Burton. But that hasn't permitted investigators to get any closer to their quarry. China considers Trie to be in the country legally, and the U.S. has no right to compel his testimony while he's there. Burton will certainly ask for more help from the Administration and Beijing in coaxing Trie to talk. But you won't find the Clinton camp up nights worrying about Charlie. "We will continue to cooperate and relay any requests he [Burton] may have," says...