Word: elicit
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...popular hype surrounding the candidates for entertainment value. It is understandable that voters get bored by seeing the same candidates say the same things week after week, but dramatizing the debates is not the best way to bring back novelty. When questions from average Americans in the audience elicit more substantial responses than those from the professional journalists appointed to hold our candidates responsible, it’s clear that there’s something wrong with the electoral campaign process and the media at large. Ronald K. Kamdem ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Winthrop...
Whippet thin from his daily 2 1/2 mile walks, Ronnie Ho, 57, doesn't look as if he's suffering from high blood pressure. Nor is he. At its peak two years ago, Ho's blood pressure clocked in at 140/90, slightly above normal but not high enough to elicit a pill or much alarm. But when he went to see Dr. Ting Choon Meng, the Singapore general practitioner decided to monitor Ho's blood pressure with a black plastic wristwatch he had designed and named the BPro. The device, worn for 24 hours, revealed a wave pattern showing...
...Persecution of such a highly endangered bird can elicit stiff penalties: under wildlife protection legislation, the perpetrator could receive up to six months in prison or a ?5,000 fine (about $10,000). According to Richard Brunstrom, chief constable of the North Wales Police, it is "likely" the culpable party would receive prison time if found. "The courts have made it fairly clear in these sorts of offenses that imprisonment is a reasonable proposition," Brunstrom added in a video message on the RSPB's Web site...
...current research, DeWall is finding that other threats, such as that of social rejection, elicit a similar psychological immune response - except, intriguingly, in depressed people - and he thinks that it's a mechanism that healthy people are probably employing constantly, as a way of fending off a lifetime of serious misfortunes: not just the looming specter of death, but also the fact that you're not going to get that promotion, or that your spouse is cheating on you, or that your kid is on drugs. "It's very difficult to keep people in bad moods, and I think this...
Dana Perino knows how to elicit a partisan response. In 1998 at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, she trained her Hungarian hunting dog, Henry, to bark when asked, "Should Clinton go to jail?" He growls when you say, "Al Gore," and retrieves a flip-flop when you mention John Kerry. To those critics who say the White House press corps has been conditioned to respond meekly to the Bush Administration, such skills might seem to make her a fitting replacement for Tony Snow, who stepped down as White House press secretary on Sept. 14. But after just...