Word: prod
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...newly retired worker an initial pension representing a somewhat lower percentage of what he earned in his last years on the job, could produce large long-run savings. It also would return the Social Security system to Roosevelt's idea of basic minimum protection against poverty, and would prod those now working to save more for their retirement. Encouraging savings is a goal that hardly any economist, conservative or liberal, will quarrel with...
...mine, a duty of the heart, the duty of a son toward his mother and nation." But, the Pontiff added, "there must be created adequate conditions for this, and I count on it, in the name of the prestige of Poland." John Paul's remarks were another papal prod to get the regime to come to terms with the Solidarity movement. But Warsaw is convinced that a papal return would be dangerous under current conditions. While the regime is eager to avoid the onus of canceling the papal visit, prospects for the trip seem dimmer than ever...
...unhappy common denominator in all these difficulties is that Reagan has not given them enough personal attention to supply any consistent prod to his diplomatic planners. His Caribbean trip last week pointed up, rather than counteracted, this impression of a President somewhat out of touch. Originally, Reagan had intended only to relax with his wife Nancy at the Barbados beach house of Claudette Colbert, 76, a longtime friend from Hollywood days. His aides arranged meetings and conferences to give the impression that Reagan was working on foreign policy matters even on holiday. But the issues of interest...
...typical Adams story rattles such a woman out of her hard-earned equilibrium and then studies her attempt to regain balance. In Legends, a sculptor submits to yet another interview about her love affair with a famous composer, long dead; this time the questions prod her into a painful re-examination of the past and, ultimately, to the realization that she has produced work of value on her own. In The Girl Across the Room, a woman in her late 60s sits in a hotel dining room in northern California and watches a young girl being fawned over...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, who holds claim to probably the longest political memory in the city, has not forgotten the city council's effort three years ago to prod the Overseers and Harvard generally into assuming public accountability for its influence on city tenants. The Overseers stalled against a report for three years, and now Wikins has called off the whole shebang, but Vellucci has pushed for a meeting between Harvard and city officials this spring...