Word: goaded
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...communist revolution was won in the countryside, but political power now rests in the urban areas, precisely where the reforms have generated less enthusiasm. To older workers in state industries, the demand for greater efficiency, with the threat of bankruptcy as the goad, presages more work with less job-security. Government bureaucrats and factory party committees resent and dislike the price rises which the partial freeing of the market has already meant...
...called Little Man (Tommy Kjellqvist). In various levels of the servant class are two maids, Julia (Valerie Mairesse) and Maria (Gudrun Gisladottir); Victor (Sven Wollter), a handsome doctor who attends the illnesses and neuroses of this frazzled family; and Otto (Allan Edwall), a postman who spouts Nietzsche, and will goad Alexander toward the starring role in a holocaustic farce-tragedy...
...speculation that the Reaganites might wrest power from Chairman Paul Volcker, and perhaps even goad him into resigning, has proved to be off the * mark. Despite a brief, publicized dispute over a discount-rate cut in February, the Reagan appointees -- Johnson, Martha Seger, Wayne Angell and H. Robert Heller -- have generally worked well with Volcker and his allies Henry Wallich and Emmett Rice. Only Seger, a former Michigan bank regulator, has publicly sniped at Volcker. One of her complaints: the central bank's staff, which answers to the chairman, does not keep the other Fed governors fully informed...
While most of the participants said the U.S. strike was necessary in order to show America's determination to combat terrorism, some said the attack would only unify Arab nations and goad Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy into future terrorism against U.S. citizens...
...Pigs. Adding insult to injury, the news began to trickle out when John Kennedy had just tossed the first baseball of the season in Griffith Stadium, and he was eating a good old American hot dog. In the perverse ways of a frontier, the discouraging news would goad Kennedy and the country to achievements beyond their dreams...