Word: prods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...like the vibrant and bustling pre-Hitler communities centered in Berlin, Frankfurt and other cities that accounted for nearly 1% of the population before 1933. Those who have chosen to live in Germany explain their presence in several ways: a continuing sense of a shared culture, a mission to prod German conscience and memory, and business opportunities...
...American coalition's victory was made sweeter because the law was passed over Reagan's veto. It effectively destroyed Reagan's policy of "constructive engagement," which was designed to quietly prod South Africa into making changes without cutting the economic links between the two countries...
...mother believes her child is going to die," cried Elizabeth Glaser. "But after two years of struggling, ((we)) had to face the reality that our daughter was going to die." Those poignant words, spoken last week before the House Budget Committee, were intended to prod the Federal Government into spending more money on researching pediatric AIDS. The witness, wife of TV star Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky and Hutch), had contracted the HIV virus from a blood transfusion nine years ago and passed it along to her infant daughter Ariel and son Jacob. Since Ariel's death in 1988, the Glasers...
...staging massive intercollegiate demonstrations on targeted campuses, SUJA members said they hope to prod the universities to divest their South African holdings...
...based human-rights organization, called Beijing's justice system "essentially pre-modern." The government's crimes include the shooting of students who tried to spread word of the Beijing massacre, arrest without trial of 10,000 to 30,000 people, solitary confinement for detainees and torture by electric cattle prod. Says Asia Watch: "There is simply no rule of law in China worth mentioning...