Word: goad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Young said yesterday he hopes the letter will "goad the Carter administration into taking the initiative with Cambodia...
Though U.S. diplomats favor resisting So viet pressure on the Middle East, they see little benefit in committing U.S. armed forces to the area. They warn that such a move might goad Moscow to respond in kind, perhaps by dispatching Soviet troops to buttress Syrian positions near the Golan Heights...
...1960s, under Chief Justice Earl I Warren, the Supreme Court fashioned I a goad for social progress out of two 14th Amendment phrases-due process and equal protection of the laws-with specific application to civil rights and criminal law. Liberals praised the court for championing the rights of the traditionally powerless-blacks, the poor, criminal defendants. Others denounced it for excessive zeal and social meddling...
...legal guardians of college students, but the House system sets them up in loco parentis. The House masters could therefore not afford to let students run their own happy hours, no matter how discriminate in serving the students promised to be. The potential for a lawsuit is a powerful goad, and the clearcut wording of the new laws allow little room for dodging...
Many of the reports on the individual activities of corporations in South Africa were "sketchy" last year, Vagts said, adding, the committee "may very well" recommend that the Harvard Corporation use shareholder resolutions to goad the corporations into releasing more substantial information...