Word: impelled
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...kinds of situations impel companies to merge - too much or too little cash, a shortage or a surfeit of able executives, tax advantages or growth-manship. Last week two large but little-known conglomerates agreed to unite for an equally compelling reason: they were practically married anyway. Toronto-based International Utilities Corp...
...fuel for the surge comes from the Federal Reserve Board, which has been pumping credit into the economy so fast that it has expanded the money supply at an annual rate of 7.7% so far this year, against only 2.2% during the 1966 tight-money squeeze. Looming inflation should impel the Fed to tighten up soon, but if it does many financial men fear the Treasury will be hard put to borrow $10.6 billion before year's end to pay the nation's soaring bills. "I think the Fed has been had," said former Chief White House Economist...
...uses lust to impel men to marriage, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind horse...
...accounts, the bombing is serving no military purpose, and North Vietnamese representatives suggested in January that it is the only stumbling block to negotiations. The military inconvenience imposed by the bombing is obviously insufficient to impel the North Vietnamese to the conference table. The overriding effect has been to heighten the Communists' determination to fight...
Treason has many faces, and most of them are familiar to Dame Rebecca West. Her studies of such traitors as Lord Haw-Haw, Klaus Fuchs, Pontecorvo and the Rosenbergs, explored the wide range of motives that can impel a man to betrayal. Sometimes, as in the case of Lord Haw-Haw or Fuchs, the traitor is distinguished from the patriot mainly by a loyalty turned upside down. Sometimes the reason is outside compulsion: John Vassall, a homosexual in the British embassy in Moscow, claimed that he turned informer under threat of exposure by the Russians...