Word: prods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy and the Panama Canal, Carter attempted to prod Congress toward accepting his proposals...
...aides say that the President has not abandoned these positions but is likely to defer the most controversial "reforms," presumably until after the 1978 elections. The plan for next year will probably include more modest changes in the tax code, along with tax cuts designed to boost business confidence, prod capital spending and give a timely kick to the economy in order to prevent the slowdown that many experts have predicted for the second half...
...shedding the shackles of the past, that is, industrial society, as quickly and painlessly as possible. In short, Toffler is indeed a revolutionary. And revolutionaries are in short supply these days, even if they wear button-downs. Americans, ensconced in their conservative ways, need people like Toffler to prod them out of their listless intellectual stupor...
...lucrative salaries of from $24,000 to $60,000 annually. Yet no one?not Kissinger two years ago, nor the Carter Administration now, nor even George Meany?seriously wants the U.S. to pull out of the I.L.O., at least permanently. Critics do see a threatened U.S. withdrawal as a prod for necessary reform, the only measure that will goad the organization into getting off its political soapbox. There is a dispute only about when to act. Officials at the State Department and National Security Council want to continue the threat for another year; the Labor Department wants to pull...
...whether what is left of the stimulus program is enough to cut the nation's jobless rate below 7%. Administration policymakers insist that it will. But if the economy does keep recovering it will be as a result of its own vitality rather than of any major prod from Washington...