Word: pester
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...Instead, Charlie Rock is guarding swatches of desert where danger swirls like sand devils and then disappears. Sure, kids still pester the troops for candy and water. But the grownups aren't in a hospitable mood. In fact, small groups of Iraqi soldiers, many in plain clothes, are letting the heavy metal pass-70-ton M1A1 Abrams tanks and Bradley troop carriers-and lying in wait for the soft-skinned, lightly armed trucks hauling fuel, food and water...
...intergovernmental approach more than Germany's integrationist aims. Once campaigning for votes in the European Parliament becomes necessary, the Commission President will lose some of his austere aura. He gains political footing in exchange, but it will be increasingly up to the new president of the Council to pester national governments to deliver what they've promised. The new deal implies that a figure chosen by the heads of government (as the Commission President is currently) will have more standing to cajole capitals into compliance if he is somehow separate from the Commission bureaucracy. Instead of caving...
...Average number of times kids say they pester their parents for an advertised product before Mom and Dad finally give...
Cuban attends most games, and fans pester him for autographs. At the Mavs' main office, Cuban works at a desk clearly visible to customers by the front door. He posts his e-mail address (mark.cuban@ dallasmavs.com on the scoreboard and answers complaints immediately...
This opened a realm that had always been unwelcoming to the public. "It was very much a one-way street," Schmidt says of the flow of information from charity to donor. Concerned citizens had to wait eons for the IRS to supply a copy--or had to pester often unwilling nonprofits to disclose their activities. "Charities would leave off attachments or white out people's salaries," says Daniel Borochoff, president of charity watchdog American Institute of Philanthropy. "They can't get away with that anymore...