Word: compels
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Elvis himself is convincingly presented as a Jekyll-and-Hyde type character, capable of both shocking brutality and lavish generosity, who expected his every whim to be fulfilled but who struck many as gentle and insecure. The gift that seemed to compel many of the people who surrounded him to stay around even after he had treated them cruelly many times was an intensity which, when applied to his personal relationships, manifested itself as an ability to make the other person feel as if she or he were the most important person in the world to him. In the studio...
White's wild assertions about the Republican record on civil rights compel a response. His hate-filled diatribe ignores the fact that it was Republicans, led by Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, who broke the Democrat filibuster delaying the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and that without Republican votes, neither it nor the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would have become law. White's naked partisanship also ignores the 4 million Americans who have been given a fresh start, liberated from lives of dependency on welfare by Republican reforms in social programs. What ought to trouble...
...never married, and eventually things fell apart. Now, after dating new people for just 12 weeks, they're both engaged. Social convention encourages marriage at the age of 22 but not 19. And three years from now, if the new couples find themselves unhappy, their married status will hopefully compel them to work through their problems and remain together. Yet who is to say that new matches are any better than the old ones? What if we meet the right partner in the wrong stage...
...Russians to accept a renegotiation of existing treaties to allow Washington to build an anti-missile defense system; to limit their ties with Iran; and to lean on the Serbs over the Kosovo issue. "There may be an undercurrent of resentment," says Meier, "but their economic situation will compel the Russians to give up on some issues." Of course if they play ball politically and don't get the financial payoff, the post-Yeltsin U.S.-Russia relationship could turn pretty frosty...
...justifiably charged timber interests, population growth and suburban sprawl with reckless forest destruction. However, you should have included the illegal drug trade as one of the culprits. For years drug cultivators have claimed hundreds of thousands of acres of forest. Environmental organizations should adopt rigorous antidrug policies that compel government accountability and stem lethal drug cultivation. F. ANDY MESSING JR. Executive Director National Defense Council Foundation Alexandria...