Word: prods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Veut, Jonas Esterlin, 22, found it hard to feel that way. Spotted by police as soon as the Coast Guard cutter tied up, he was ordered to a separate area on the docks. There, he says, he was pistol-whipped in the head and jabbed with an electric cattle prod. "The police kept yelling that we had fled to show support for Aristide," Esterlin recalls, "and that we should all be killed." Terrified, he broke and ran. Police were unable to catch up, so they went instead to Esterlin's mother's home in Petit-Trou. Still unable to find...
However firm its stance, the U.S. cannot entirely eliminate the ambitions and fears that prod nations to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Washington could not, even if it wanted to, guarantee Arab states against Israel, India against China, Pakistan against India or Iran against Iraq. Some of them have the bomb now, and the others will get it. In the years to come, the U.S. will have to choose very carefully where to engage its interests and its military forces. It may have its hands full just protecting itself...
...possibilities to a two-step strategy. It centered on an effort to exempt the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government from the U.N. arms embargo, which requires Security Council approval, combined with limited air strikes in the interim, if necessary, to protect the Bosnian forces while they await arms, and to prod the Serbs toward serious negotiations. Along with stepped-up sanctions on Serbia, Washington hoped, a credible threat of force would obviate the need...
Reno finally reached her decision on Saturday night. The Attorney General convened top aides in her fifth-floor conference room and demanded that the FBI once again justify its operation. "Is this the best way," she asked, to prod Koresh without aggravating the situation? "What would happen if we don't do it?" What was the risk of losing more lives both inside and outside the compound? She shook her head in horror as an FBI official offered a graphic description of human waste being thrown outside in pails. There was some discussion of child abuse, at which point Reno...
Lahav said the University's "bureaucracy needed an additional prod from the students...in recycling, cost-efficiency and environmental importance...