Word: prodded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City for the association's annual convention, that obstacle fell away too. By a vote of 141 to 69, the A.B.A.'s House of Delegates agreed to approve TV advertising, as long as it is "presented in a dignified manner." The decision will probably prod the 43 state bar associations that do not already allow TV advertising to do likewise...
...Senate considered the economic sanctions voted by the U.N. in 1966 and 1968 to isolate the white Rhodesian regime of Ian Smith after it refused to share power with the black majority. The Administration wanted no change in U.S. policy. It views the sanctions as a powerful lever to prod Smith to accept an Anglo-American plan for a comprehensive settlement. This plan calls for participation by all black factions, guerrillas based outside the country as well as moderate nationalists inside. But there has been a growing feeling in Congress that the Administration's commitment to this formula does...
...articles published a year ago helped prod the organization to a new fiscal openness. Corporate Report, a Midwest business magazine, said that because of inadequate financial data, the Minnesota Commerce Department was looking into a B.G.E.A. gift-annuity plan, which supporters bequeath money to, and draw interest income from until they die. (After protracted negotiations, the data were provided, and the state approved the annuity sales.) The magazine also disclosed that B.G.E.A. had refused financial information requested on a voluntary basis by the state's charities division and by the Better Business Bureau; the bureau's latest report...
...vaudeville" that Baryshnikov chose for his tribute to this sturdy war horse of Russian ballet. When she is in the presence of Gamache, the unwanted suitor pressed upon her by her father, her eyes roll in exaggerated disdain. She transforms her snapping fan into an épée to prod this fopling across the stage and out of her sight. Her face flares in coquettish outrage at brash Basil's proffered kisses; she singes and melts at the same time. When she is onstage with the demented man of La Mancha, the tart señorita turns spindrift. She not only...
...School cannot prod its students toward careers in public interest law. It should do a great deal more, however, to reduce pressure on students to enter more lucrative corporate practice...