Word: prods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Italians wondered how many deaths would be enough to prod the national government into effective action against the criminals it has long tolerated. A week before his death, Borsellino told friends, "The tnt for me has already arrived in Palermo." With estimated annual profits of $20 billion at stake, the Mob had decided that he knew too much about its inner workings to live...
That alone should improve Israel's strained relations with Washington and prod the Bush Administration into reconsidering the $10 billion in loan guarantees Jerusalem wants to help resettle Russian Jews. Insofar as the settlement imbroglio was part of a campaign to show Israeli voters that the U.S. relationship was in jeopardy under Shamir, it has done its work. In part, the President simply likes Rabin better than the stubborn Shamir; moreover, caught in a tough presidential race, Bush would like to repair his relations with American Jewish voters...
...change going to come about? Well, don't count on physicians. "We've got an entrenched older establishment that doesn't see the need for change," Smith observes. "Younger physicians are more likely to favor it but less likely to be politically active." Women are going to have to prod doctors into giving them better care. Smith suggests that women approach their gynecologists "the way you do car dealers and insurance salesmen." Ask questions, he says, and take notes. Your doctor may mark down such assertive action in his medical records. But as a measure of respect, it beats...
...there is more to this movement than budget trimming. Many states are attaching strings to welfare benefits, in an attempt to modify behavior, provide job training and prod recipients into the labor force through what is known as "workfare" programs. New York University professor Lawrence Mead, a conservative advocate of welfare reform, has dubbed this approach the "New Paternalism." New Jersey, for example, has passed a carrot-and-stick bill that denies extra payments to single mothers who bear children while on the dole; on the other hand, it allows them to keep their benefits if they marry...
...West can prod, but only the leaders of former Yugoslavia can decide on a course. For now,they seem bent on further anarchy. "Too many people, too often and too fast, are prepared to resort to the use of the gun and the bayonet," says Lawrence Eagleburger, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State. As Lebanon demonstrated through 16 years of misery and chaos, no outside force can impose peace on a country -- or leaders -- bent on war. Perhaps the West can only sit back and wait until the ethnic groups feel they have no more blood to give. Then, when they...