Word: goading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Blues, with its bas-reliefs of Blues and Jazz greats, enhanced the funky bass-lines and fostered the dialogue between Wooten, the band and his audience. Coming on close to 40 minutes late with his band of a DJ, percussionist, keyboard player and guitar player, Wooten's arrival help goad the crowd (mostly students from the Berklee School of Music) into a frenzy of anticipation. This was an audience ready to learn from the master...
...Since 1994, offers of energy and food assistance by the U.S. and its allies had succeeded in curbing North Korea?s nuclear program and its missile exports, but strong warnings against the latest planned test -- and military maneuvers by its regional enemies -- may goad Pyongyang into pressing the button. "By making so much of it we may have turned this missile firing into a test of North Korean manhood," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Being more discreet may give Pyongyang more of a way out." Which may be why, despite the threats of harsh economic retaliation, Washington is arguing...
Republican presidential challengers have tried everything to goad Texas Governor George W. Bush off his front porch in Austin. What's he afraid of? they've asked. He's nothing but a name, they've whispered. But Bush has just smiled--his poll numbers have stayed stratospheric and the satchels full of checks are still coming in to his ZIP code. Last week Elizabeth Dole threw a tomato. Though she did not mention Bush by name, the former Cabinet secretary launched a verbal missile in the post-Littleton gun-control debate, declaring that it was "wrong to let people carry...
...Saddam's strategy is to goad the U.S. into repeated reprisals which would give the impression that all the U.S. cares about is punishment. "The more the U.S. bites, the more Saddam can then use the U.S. attacks to rouse domestic and international sympathy to lobby against the sanctions that are hurting his country," says Dowell. For now, Saddam appears to have hit upon an effective strategy. The question for U.S. officials is whether they can come up with a valid counter-strategy. Until they do, expect more clashes -- and more American frustration...
...immediate danger is that a major Hamas attack will goad Netanyahu to back out of conceding land for peace. Palestinian support for the peace process is also at a low ebb. "The mood has changed," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "The optimism has given way to indifference and anxiety. Don't expect Palestinians to celebrate this agreement, because they doubt whether Netanyahu plans to implement any deal. For the Palestinians, Oslo was the compromise, and now this is the compromise of the compromise...