Word: goad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...towns and wards; Dole has two volunteer co-chairmen in almost all of them already. "Dole had only 20 regional chairmen statewide in '88," says Carney. "We'll have 500 people. Those are vested folks. They see their own reputations on the line, so they work hard." To goad their efforts, each chairman has been given a vote goal. Over the next seven months, their performance will be measured periodically and made known to their colleagues. "Politics is the state sport," Carney explains, "so competition is a powerful incentive...
...Sidhartha" is a four year IRC veter-an whoclaims never to have had 'netsex "for real,"meaning he has never gotten off on it. He and afriend occasionally goad others into performingfor them. "Sometimes my friend 'Hee-Haw' and Ilure unsuspecting people on IRC into privaterooms to have fake netsex. It's really funnysometimes, the shit people are into. 'Hee-Haw'either pretends to be a jock or a drag queen witha read silk kimono, fuzzy mules and a cigaretteholder. Of course, they could be faking at theother...
...fold each month and focus on everything from the benign to the outre. 8-Track Mind, for instance, extols the aural experience of listening to eight-track tapes. ANSWER Me!, on the other hand, claims to tap "primal longings for violence," according to its 33-year-old publisher, Jim Goad. Issues have contained the text of an actual phone conversation between euthanasia advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian and a woman pretending to be terminally ill (in reality, Goad's wife), as well as articles about the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a pro-pedophilia organization. Goad is about to publish...
...halt transfer payments to people in the North of up to $1 billion a year from Koreans living in Japan. This is a major source of hard currency for Pyongyang, and could provoke retaliation. The more likely a sanction is to hurt the North, the more likely it could goad them into lashing back with missile bombardments across the border, terrorist raids or even a full-scale attack...
...says they probably though he was a "movement plant," strategically placed to goad the police into beating...