Word: elicit
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...speaking longer than he was supposed to in his responses in the debates, Al gave George the opportunity to look like a little boy at the mercy of a bully. Amazingly, the veep even figured out how to elicit the wrath of a Mr. Rogers-esque Jim Lehrer, the moderator of the debates. Al, trying to be bold, failed miserably when he broke the debate rules that he had agreed to heed. Americans honor the good sport because the truly good sport is a rarity. You can fight for me on the issues all you want...
...Despite Monday's slap-down of Judge Guzman, Pinochet's legal road ahead remains blighted. To be sure, he's unlikely to elicit much sympathy from the same Chilean Supreme Court that last August stripped the general of the immunity from prosecution he'd authored for himself as a precondition for stepping down in 1990. Of course it's quite possible that the high court will uphold Monday's technical ruling, but its August decision presumably leaves the field open to Pinochet's accusers to simply keep trying. And that would leave the general's attorneys to fall back...
...bill's failure to elicit a strong response shouldn't prevent the council from redirecting its efforts toward attacking on-campus homophobia. By increasing dialogue between students, faculty and the administration, by organizing and funding panel discussions, by lobbying to improve advising for gay students and by working to ensure a campus free of hate crimes, the council can do much more to eliminate homophobia than any single event would have done...
...into the tacos? They are sold by Kraft but made by a Mexican company whose corn comes from any number of U.S. farms. Farmers who grow StarLink do so on the condition that they'll keep it out of human food supplies--a promise that's easy to elicit but hard to enforce...
Janey's plight might elicit sympathy from the three other blonds Bushnell depicts: the journalist who learns to appreciate her frequently cuckolded husband only after sleeping with his best friend; the sedated socialite discovering that marriage to a European prince isn't all it's cracked up to be; and the Manhattan society columnist sent to London to uncover the real story of sex in the British Isles...