Word: prods
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That caution seems fitting for a relationship that while relatively warm, is being tested by a multitude of tricky issues. Atop Bush's agenda: the swelling U.S. trade deficit with China, which is more than $200 billion a year. Bush is expected to prod Hu to allow China's currency to rise, making U.S. goods cheaper, imports from China more expensive and the trade imbalance less lopsided...
...Your tariff bill had a lot of Senate support last year. Yes. We could have demanded a vote right away, but we held off because we're doing an elaborate minuet here, and trying to prod both sides to come to an agreement. We feel we're closer than we have been before...
...pushed the country closer than ever to full-bore civil war. U.S. commanders believe that Sunni-Shi'ite violence is surpassing jihadi terrorism as the biggest threat to the country's long-term stability. And yet the prospect of a deeper, more vicious war has so far failed to prod the country's leaders into setting aside their rivalries and forming a broadly representative government, which may be the U.S.'s best hope for subduing the insurgency. The task of bringing together Iraqis torn by bloodshed and ill will has fallen to Khalilzad, the gregarious, glad-handing Afghan-born diplomat...
...when Lawrence Summers took the helm at Harvard in 2001, the idea was that he had to shake up an institution badly in need of change. "I have sought for the past five years to prod and challenge the university to reach for the most ambitious goals," he wrote last week in a letter announcing his resignation. Summers' view that he had inherited a university with urgent problems is in part a way of justifying the highly undiplomatic way he conducted himself as president, but he's hardly alone in his view. His temporary successor, former Harvard president Derek...
...university is not directly responsible.”RATHER THAN DIVEST, BOK BALKEDFor about a decade under Bok’s 20-year tenure, the Harvard campus played host to student marches, sit-ins, and once, a shantytown that was erected outside University Hall—all efforts to prod Harvard into selling its holdings tied to South Africa.But Bok wanted to exert pressure on companies in other ways, such as through shareholder resolutions.While he objected to “sweeping prohibitions” on investments, Bok suggested in one open letter to the Harvard community that divestment could...