Word: suasion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main achievement during his tenure as Foreign Secretary was the suasion of Mrs. Thatcher that she had to deal with Mr. Mugabe in Zimbabwe. He should get enormous credit; they were absolutely against him," says MacFarquhar. "A minor but important human achievement was persuading Margaret Thatcher to accept the boat people" after visiting Hong Kong to guage their plight...
...Harvard be catalogued through the College Library. But that arrangement quickly broke down--and a century later, Handlin says, "the basic situation remains unchanged. The absolute autonomy of each individual unit sometimes creates an infuriating impasse at the center, which is armed only with the instrument of moral suasion...
...incidents constituting "moral suasion and inappropriate behavior," said Marily M. Lewis '70, assistant dean of the College. She added that the problem is not a new one and that a faculty statement on sexual harassment appears in the Handbook to Students...
...true. Historians will not buy his arguments that the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, the anti-Establishment groups and the antiwar protesters were responsible for our defeat in Viet Nam. It is as if he and President Nixon were mere helpless spectators during this period of national crisis. The moral suasion required of our leaders to pull America through those last years of the Viet Nam War was lacking, both from Nixon and Kissinger...
...council also stressed that information professors report would be kept confidential; this, too, rightly shows respect for privacy. And in refusing to empower the new "Extramural Activities Committee" to do more than suggest that overburdened professors cut back on their second jobs, the council displayed proper confidence that moral suasion--not edicts--will persuade professors to keep their loyalties here. We urge all Faculty members to abide by the new codes--and to let their actions show clearly that their allegiances remain with Harvard...