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...pensions to be fully funded and called for even stiffer premiums for companies whose plans are in the worst shape. "A lot of companies are looking to get out of these plans anyway," says Dan McGinn, a pension consultant in Anaheim, Calif. "This might be just the prod they need...
...based on an Ariosto comedy based on an old folk tale, the picture is pretty far off any kind of base ... The plot, a musical within a musical, with its noisily surreptitious shifts from onstage to off, appears just too heavy and elaborate a vehicle for the camera to prod along. Even so, if other performers had spread the wings of song as grandly as Howard Keel (Petruchio), the picture might have been better. Handsome singer Keel, who appears to be a sort of Nelson Eddy with muscles, and is currently Hollywood's leading graduate of the Broadway school...
AASG has sought to prod the United Nations toward action by mounting letter-writing campaigns directed at representatives from countries that have blocked the Security Council from imposing economic sanctions on Sudan...
Gaffney said he sees a diverse political alliance coalescing around efforts to prod investors to cut their ties with Sudan. The coalition includes human rights activists, security hawks who highlight the Khartoum regime’s sponsorship of terrorism, and African American clergymen who are concerned by the regime’s targeting of Christians and dark-skinned Sudanese...
...otherwise—is important for the council in order to best represent the interests of Harvard’s diverse community. In the future, we hope that this campaign will inspire more members of underrepresented groups to run for office. In fact, a concerted effort to encourage and prod student leaders to run for office—so as to boost the amount of diversity on the ballot—would likely help accomplish the goal of a more diverse council even more effectively than simple endorsements alone...