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...Industries (ICTI) - representing toy makers associations from 18 countries - is implementing a code for working conditions in toy factories across the globe. To obtain a certificate of compliance, factories will have to let auditors annually assess worker health and safety. Complying with the code isn't mandatory, but moral suasion may work. "Buyers are increasingly choosy," says David Hawtin, president of the ICTI. "If you can't come up to an agreed international standard, we can't do business with you." And neither will Santa. It's Getting Hot In Here The French government called on workers to labor...
...from a mix that included idealism as well as realism. When woven together, as they would be in policies ranging from the Monroe Doctrine to the Marshall Plan, they were the warp and woof of a sturdy foreign policy. And when countries such as France felt that the soft suasion of idealism was lacking, as has recently been the case, it proved harder to attract them to a cause. "America's great historical moments," historian Bernard Bailyn has noted, "have occurred when realism and idealism have been combined, and no one knew this better than Franklin...
...govern analyst behavior? G.O.P. Congressman Richard Baker of Louisiana is chairing subcommittee hearings on the matter and says voluntary guidelines are not enough. But at least they're a start. John Markese, president of the American Association of Individual Investors, says, "There's a lot of important moral suasion here. No one who signed wants to be singled out as not following the rules...
Despite the attention given to student-administration conflicts, however, little attention has been paid here to a shocking development just several weeks ago, when Rice University temporarily shut down KTRU, its student-run radio station. The ordeal revealed how little power--or even moral suasion--university students really can exert...
...board did not see fit to mention any thuggery in their official explanation, but when a brick gets thrown through the window of the Broward County Democratic party office with a note attached reading "We will not tolerate any illegal government," that is not the art of sweet democratic suasion...