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...just don't accept that they [the postal system] are doing as well as they should be doing. We have to prod them, just like we are prodding New York City, to improve their efficiency productivity ... If we don't keep the pressure on them ... You know how things operate in Government ... That's one of the basic problems in New York City. No one really put the screws on them until this year, and now they are faced with reality. I think the post office department -management and labor-has to face up to that reality...
...diplomacy over the past two years has been to break up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The U.S. tried to weld consuming countries into a bloc that would reduce oil imports and accelerate development of alternative sources of energy, with the aim of shrinking OPEC revenues enough to prod some of its 13 member nations to cut prices, thus dissolving the cartel. The strategy seemed justified: OPEC's quintupling of prices since late 1973 has aggravated both inflation and recession in industrialized countries. But the attempt simply did not work, and now the policy is being quietly shelved...
...drop in the country's billion-dollar tourist business, President Echeverría two weeks ago entertained a group of visiting Jewish leaders at a kosher luncheon (lox, roast chicken, white wine). He said that Mexico voted for the measure only because it was trying to prod Israel into a dialogue with the Arabs. He told them that Foreign Minister Emilio Rabasa was en route home from Israel after laying a wreath at the shrine of Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism, and that he would ensure that future votes by Mexico would not be "misinterpreted or misunderstood...
...which critics rarely affect the box office, so it is hard to assess exactly how effective Deeb has been. But his denunciation of bias in a pre-election special led WGN-TV to grant equal time to Mayor Richard Daley's opponents. Deeb's criticisms helped prod the public TV network to air a documentary about the funeral business that the industry had tried to halt. He helped pressure a local station into dropping a cartoon series that he considered too violent...
...trade, and pledged themselves by 1977 to bring to a fruitful conclusion the current round of world trade negotiations that is aimed at lowering tariffs and tearing down other barriers to the movement of goods across national borders. Americans had been concerned that the other heads of government might prod Ford to take the possibly inflationary course of speeding up the American recovery so that the U.S. would buy more foreign products. That fear proved unfounded. Said Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: "After the President explained our economic program, the other countries substantially accepted it." In sum, face-to-face...