Word: goad
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...country. Under siege from the media--and the Interior Minister, who warned her of the bad health care in England--Casta went on French television to claim she was not permanently relocating, but not before opposition politicians used the controversy to attack the country's tax laws and goad Prime Minister Lionel Jospin into pledging cuts in the income tax. There's nothing like a babe to speed up the wheels of bureaucracy...
According to Riley, at a rally a few years ago, a student from another Boston school participating in a rally at Harvard attempted to goad the crowd into throwing rocks through the windows of Mass Hall...
...Then a year ago, during a flexible sigmoidoscopy, a physician discovered a tumor the size of a golf ball that had begun to spread. Aggressive treatment seems to have left Billingsley cancer free. Now she's on a mission to persuade family and friends to be screened. "I just goad them until they do it," she says. Katie Couric would be proud...
...operation. In their off-hours the young hustlers watch Glengarry Glen Ross to learn the tricks of their trade and Wall Street to justify it. But they don't really need audio-visual education. Not when they have Jim Young so close at hand. He's their recruiter, mentor, goad and ideal. He's played by Ben Affleck, and the role may be the best thing Affleck has ever done--so abusive, yet so coldly glamorous in his amorality...