Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today's group says the divestment issue does not elicit the same kind of response from students, who tend to see South Africa as an aberrant case rather than the symptom of a larger societal problem...
Today's group says the divestment issue does not elicit the same kind of response from students, who tend to see South Africa as an aberrant case rather than the symptom of a larger societal problem...
Today's group says the divestment issue does not elicit the same kind of response from students, who tend to see South Africa as an aberrant case rather than the symptom of a larger societal problem...
Some bosses think they can elicit brainstorms from their workers simply by plying them with coffee and doughnuts. But Bruce Katz, president of Rockport Co., a shoe manufacturer in Marlboro, Mass., thinks a little sun and wind surfing are a much better inducement. This summer he is spending a reported $15,000 a month to rent Plaisance, a 20-room chateau by the sea in Newport, R.I., that he has dubbed Camp Rockport. In groups of a dozen, each of his 220 employees takes a car pool to the mansion for two days of sports and shoptalk with the boss...
...biggest reporting problem Ungeheuer had was holding back the flow of Pickens' Texas yarns, usually told with full sound effects and gestures. "To Pickens a question was like a match put to tinder," Ungeheuer says. "Asking about a financial arrangement would elicit an anecdote about a nouveau riche Texan and his interior decorator, and then other stories. It was hard to lead the conversation back to the answers I needed." Ungeheuer's dispatches, anecdotes and all, went to Associate Editor John Greenwald, who wrote the cover story with assistance from Reporter-Researchers Lawrence Mondi and Richard Bruns...