Word: prodded
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...deadlocked again, Jarring flew from New York to the Soviet capital to spend Easter with his family and catch up on embassy work. Were the talks really that stalemated? Well, Jarring confided to U.N. friends before he left, the trip was partially a bit of "constructive inaction" designed to prod the protagonists...
...year's "Ulster '71" celebration, marking the 50th anniversary of Ireland's partition; 2) to provoke the army into overreacting against Catholic rioters, particularly children, in order to win over Catholic moderates who have been increasingly alienated by the militants' bloody tactics; and 3) to prod the populace into a general uprising that would eventually lead to a united Ireland...
...upped the ante to $12 billion over three years, with states to pay half. Senator Edmund Muskie had already proposed $25 billion over five years. Nixon again asked that federal jurisdiction be extended to ground waters (now uncovered) as well as navigable waters and their tributaries. This would prod states to develop antipollution standards as tough as those prescribed by federal authorities. With both Nixon and Muskie pushing for some water-quality measure, the chances are good that Congress may finally...
Clearly the American people distrust their leaders and want the war ended. The movement must prod them into action...
...suggested by the work of Psychologist Ivar Lovaas with certain disturbed children who consistently try to mutilate themselves. He noticed that when the children went on a rampage, nurses warmly cuddled them and thus unconsciously rewarded their destructiveness. Instead Lovaas now jolts the kids with an electric cattle prod, often stopping the behavior pattern in hours or minutes. In his book Crime and Personality, Psychologist H.J. Eysenck offers a fascinating discussion of how certain depressant or stimulant drugs can be used to make a patient feel sick whenever he commits a specific antisocial act. "Given the time and resources," adds...