Word: prods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STOCK MARKET: In an effort to prod reluctant investors, the Government relaxed its guidelines to allow companies to increase their dividends. The move makes much more attractive the stocks of auto, oil and other companies bulging with profits and in a good position to boost payments...
...order to prod the laggards into action, the U.S. State Department recently circulated to some 300 American companies that operate in South Africa a set of "fair employment guidelines." The State Department report subtly reminds the companies that, apartheid notwithstanding, no South African law puts a lid on the wages that can be paid to blacks...
...better to have an inaccurate sense of what we want than an accurate sense of what we do not want." He hopes that the inclusion of the N.E.W. concept in his textbook, which is used by nearly one-third of all college economics students in the U.S., will prod the Department of Commerce or some other Government agency into calculating an official economic indicator along the lines of N.E.W...
...this way, the JV squad, which includes two of last year's varsity lettermen, will provide a continual prod to the varsity. Lee explained that Harvard dropped its freshman golf team and replaced it with a JV squad this year when an NCAA ruling made freshmen eligible to compete in varsity golf...
...fact that so many of us ordinary citizens and extraordinary policemen are murdered every week is still not enough to prod Congress into passing some kind of meaningful gun-control law. Limit them, remove them, tax hell out of them, confiscate them-but do something. Personally, I'm afraid of a gun, and I like to think that this attitude shows common sense...