Word: suasion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earned respect from big and small powers for his quietly energetic diplomacy. He received a 14-to-0 endorsement on the second ballot in the Security Council, and was re-elected by acclamation in the General Assembly. How does Waldheim view his job? As one of moral suasion, he says. "Like the Pope, I have no divisions...
...productivity, and should have the power to force compulsory arbitration." PAUL SAMUELSON, M.I.T. economist. "I'm in favor of a much more activist incomes policy than President Nixon has been willing to take, but I stop short of mandatory price controls. I'm for jawboning, for moral suasion. To hold down prices, I would let in more imports, and I would use Government procurement policies...
...self-righteousness, matched by the banks' haughty self-justification. While neither the government nor the banks are likely to admit the fact publicly, no one with intimate knowledge of this matter doubts that a decisive factor was persistent pressure by Friends of Africans, especially church spokesmen. When moral suasion failed, concrete action-withdrawal of tens of millions of dollars by churches in deposits and investments from the banks-proved effective, a vindication of economic sanctions to implement ethical judgments...