Word: prods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drop in the country's billion-dollar tourist business, President Echeverría two weeks ago entertained a group of visiting Jewish leaders at a kosher luncheon (lox, roast chicken, white wine). He said that Mexico voted for the measure only because it was trying to prod Israel into a dialogue with the Arabs. He told them that Foreign Minister Emilio Rabasa was en route home from Israel after laying a wreath at the shrine of Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism, and that he would ensure that future votes by Mexico would not be "misinterpreted or misunderstood...
...which critics rarely affect the box office, so it is hard to assess exactly how effective Deeb has been. But his denunciation of bias in a pre-election special led WGN-TV to grant equal time to Mayor Richard Daley's opponents. Deeb's criticisms helped prod the public TV network to air a documentary about the funeral business that the industry had tried to halt. He helped pressure a local station into dropping a cartoon series that he considered too violent...
...trade, and pledged themselves by 1977 to bring to a fruitful conclusion the current round of world trade negotiations that is aimed at lowering tariffs and tearing down other barriers to the movement of goods across national borders. Americans had been concerned that the other heads of government might prod Ford to take the possibly inflationary course of speeding up the American recovery so that the U.S. would buy more foreign products. That fear proved unfounded. Said Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: "After the President explained our economic program, the other countries substantially accepted it." In sum, face-to-face...
...F.N.L.A. and UNITA are in uneasy alliance against M.P.L.A. The three longstanding Angolan liberation movements have been so violently divided that no one has been able to form a new national government to accept independence. The Organization of African Unity, under the prod of Uganda's Idi Amin, claimed that last-minute efforts had forced a coalition, but no one believed the hollow boast...
...they probe, prod, tickle and test opinion, the pollsters never run out of questions about American political choices, product preferences and psychological hang-ups. But what do the people think about the pollsters? Inevitably, the Gallup poll took a poll - and discovered that 15% of the respondents had participated in earlier public surveys and that 67% felt that the country would be better off if national leaders heeded the polls' results. Alas, those results may be harder to get in the future...