Word: goad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mentioned the American People as incessantly as President Clinton. (We talk about him an awful lot too.) He presents himself by turns as the American People's benefactor, slave and towel-snapping locker-room pal. In his rhetoric the American People, for their part, serve alternately as a goad, an inspiration, a shaming device and, of course, an excuse. "I need to go back to work for the American People," he notoriously said on Jan. 26, and then refused to discuss the Lewinsky scandal for almost seven months. Too busy. The American People's work really fills...
...this restraint is making India nervous, as shown by New Delhi's bellicose statements about the power of its nuclear blasts and about Kashmir, the Himalayan region that's divided between the countries. The State Department suspects that India, uncomfortable with the condemnation it has received, is trying to goad Pakistan into conducting a test. "The Indians would like nothing better than to rid themselves of this uncomfortable isolation," says a senior U.S. official...
...under stress--after surgery, for example, or during a major infection--HDL stops producing an enzyme called paraoxynase and thus loses its antioxidant properties. When good cholesterol goes bad, moreover, it goes really bad. Not only does it stop protecting the body against LDL, but it also seems to goad the immune system into forming plaques even more quickly...
...entertainment mix," noted a Smith Barney report, Filmed Entertainment: It's a Small World, issued in July, "and virtually no live-action film can replicate the profit potential of this venue." The figures that movie moguls dream of have dollar signs in front, and Disney's were enough to goad any showman into finding his inner children's market. It was time for Disney rivals to wake up and smell the cash flow...
...demand for oxygen by his muscles, brain, lungs and other organs. Next, they gave him high-potency formulations of iron supplements and vitamins, plus "industrial doses" of a blood-building drug, synthetic erythropoietin, that stimulates the bone marrow to produce red blood cells. Finally, intravenous fluids were administered to goad what little circulation he had left...