Word: prodded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigation into the car bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut in 1983 came to a halt after a suspect died under too vigorous interrogation with a cattle prod...
...these plans face a fundamental obstacle: state and local governments, not Washington, control what is taught in schools and how well. A President can exhort, encourage, prod and deplore, and to some extent use federal aid or its denial to effect changes. But a President Biden could not order school districts to lengthen the class year, nor could a President du Pont force them to adopt his "universal choice" plan...
...scientist who created some of NASA's most spectacular computer simulations of planetary flybys: "Sometimes a half- baked idea gets printed up prettily and gets more attention than it deserves." Still, Blinn believes, as long as the scientific data used to generate the images are accurate, computer graphics can prod scientists to move in exciting new directions. NCSA's Upson agrees. "If we play our cards right," he says, "we may actually make a dent in how people do science...
...Supreme Court last week, the issue of promotions ensured the troopers one more spot in the history books. In another in the maze of rulings that have defined the ground rules for affirmative action, the court upheld an intricate scheme aimed at compelling integration of the higher ranks. To prod the troopers to offer an acceptable plan, a lower court temporarily required the force to promote one black trooper for every white promoted to each rank, if there were qualified blacks available, until they constituted 25% of that rank. The 5-4 decision in the case, U.S. v. Paradise, marks...
...critic must also try to prod "critic-proof" resident theaters, he said. "Without intellectual excitement from outside the [resident] theater, it would be a school play for geniuses...