Word: prods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Englishman's truly distinctive disease is his cherished habit of waiting until the 13th hour," wrote British Historian Arnold Toynbee last November. Events have since proved him right. It took a serious pound scare and a disastrous inflation rate of 26% to prod Britain's Labor government into coming up with what Prime Minister Harold Wilson called "a plan to save our country" from a "general economic catastrophe of incalculable proportions" (TIME, July 21). Last Tuesday, after two days of passionate, often bitter debate, the House of Commons approved the government's emergency package by a vote...
...journalistic-practice and as civilized behavior." Later in the week a Palm Beach, Fla., Post reporter pawed through garbage bins at the National Enquirer's headquarters in nearby Lantana and came up with a revealing two-year-old memo from Publisher Generoso Pope Jr. exhorting his troops: "Prod, push and probe the main characters in the story. Help them frame their answers. Ask leading questions like 'Do you ever go into the corner...
...GERMAN. This is the most purely capitalist system. Production is managed for private profit by businessmen, who can operate as they please so long as they obey the many regulatory laws. Government with rare exceptions directly runs only the most essential services (defense, education, post office) and tries to prod the economy in a desired direction by tax, spending and money-supply policies...
...biggest problem that Phifer faces is lack of leadership in the clubs. Sometimes club presidents perform very well their first year, but gradually loss interest in their duties. Phifer, who visits over 30 clubs a year, tries to prod officers to hold regular meetings and offers advice on getting speakers, putting on seminars, and lowering costs, but the officers he supervises are volunteers, and he must treat them gently...
Stopgap Move. In fact, the cutbacks are unlikely to go that far. Beame described his budget as "shock therapy," and it was clearly intended to prod the state legislature into coming through with the $641 million in increased aid and taxing authority that Beame seeks. Last week, in a stopgap move, the state advanced the city $200 million in welfare funds; that will keep the city solvent at least through this week while Beame pursues other means of coming up with the $800 million that the city needs to pay its bills through June and thus avoid a financial last...