Word: elicitation
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Pickens' foray drew flak from Tokyo investors, who saw the move as an attempt to elicit greenmail -- the money that a company pays raiders when it buys back their shares at a costly premium. The Japanese government is investigating whether Pickens ambushed Koito by teaming up with secret partners who unethically bought shares for him under their own names...
...Middlesex Superior Court judge ruled last week that attorneys for a Harvard professor and his wife will have to wait until the trial next month to get detailed information about anatomically correct dolls used to elicit allegations of sexual abuse from the couple's grandchildren...
Presumably, the purpose of the kiss-in was to elicit a response that would demonstrate the depth or shallowness of support for gay rights at Harvard. The Defeat Homophobia effort has been widely successful in challenging the assumptions of those who considered themselves to be tolerant of homosexuality, but were unwilling to pay the cause anything more than lip service...
...shopping malls of America, where the nation's largest booksellers ordered all copies of The Satanic Verses removed from the shelves. Suddenly the name Salman Rushdie was on the lips of millions, many reviling him but others expressing sympathy and genuinely wondering how a novel could elicit such deadly passion. The dispute reminded Westerners once again of the zealous rage that Khomeini is capable of; it also raised questions about how free societies can best protect themselves and their citizens against so furious and mercurial a form of intimidation...
...choice groups have embarked on an all- out lobbying effort. The National Organization for Women is planning a huge march in Washington on April 9. The National Abortion Rights Action League is organizing a drive to send a million postcards to the high court. Another tactic is to elicit a large outpouring of friend-of-court briefs from groups like bar associations, civil rights organizations, Senators and Congressmen, and population-control organizations...