Word: exhortion
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...proved that they prompt consumers to save more. But banks and mutual funds, which together hold a large chunk of the $250 billion in IRA accounts, want to shoot down this part of the proposal. Merrill Lynch plans a mass mailing to its 1.4 million account holders, which will exhort them to write to their Senators and complain about the loss of future IRA credits...
...Typical of many in overcrowded urban slums, Dominican Father Miguel Concha of Mexico City remarks, "If I know someone is using an artificial method, I'm not going to think they're in serious sin. I'm going to respect their decision, though I'll exhort them to seek medical advice so as not to risk the woman's health...
...they were the first to dream up some of their schemes to, for example, reform the military or revive growth; their approach often borders on extreme arrogance. The military reformers talk with some merit, about the necessity for liberals to take defense matters more seriously and they exhort the Army to improve cohesion and morale, never bad advice. But they they ignore the long stream of institutional interests in the subject that has been stymied simply by the normal difficulty of getting something changed in the armed forces, not necessarily because of the stupidity writers often impute to the officer...
Others will exhort you to take risks, to be yourself, never to look back or lose your faith. Not I. If the truth be told, I do not want you to take risks. Oh, maybe a selected few to preserve your selfesteem, but not the killing kind of risk, nothing netless...
...addition to the registration copy, the statement also appeared in The Crimson on the same day. The main thrust of the document is laudable. Citing the dangerous events at last year's Cornell game, in which the Cornell goalie was struck down by a thrown beer bottle, the administrators exhort students to show proper respect for the safety of the players. They correctly request that "nothing should ever be thrown...