Word: suasion
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...limited partner, all you can do is use the power of suasion," he said. He added that he felt Harvard was being targeted by the carpenters "clear- ly for other reasons...
Given this history, Bill Clinton's failure to revive baseball, which may have surprised some, didn't surprise us. Clinton's only real weapon, moral suasion, has never trumped greed--and greed is what this whole sorry mess is all about. ``It's just a few hundred folks trying to figure out how to divide nearly $2 billion,'' said the President plaintively. ``They ought to be able to do that.'' Clinton obviously didn't understand that the baseball strike is like Somalia: simple on the outside, a quagmire once you're in. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who enjoyed a cushy...
...case, I think there's a need for moral suasion from department chairs and deans and from those concerned about the collective good," Hall said. "In the post this has not been very effective, I think because most faculty members want to be fair to their students, quite rightly, and they define fairness as grading on roughly the same scale everyone else does...
...from the Lyndon Johnsons and Everett Dirksens of the past. With one exception, the new breed are committee chairmen rather than members of the formal leadership (which was all but reformed out of business a couple of decades ago). In cutting deals, the modern lions rely as much on suasion as brute political force, and when they have to fight dirty, they prefer the stiletto to brass knuckles. They are policy mavens who can match any calculator-toting Administration whiz kid, statistic for statistic and program for program. They command personal respect even in an institution crowded with overweening White...
...more generally, for widespread frustration at the way in which nationalist ambitions and ethnic hostilities are threatening to convert the desired new world order into the very opposite. Never mind that the U.N., for all its good intentions, lacks the military force, political leverage, perhaps even the moral suasion to fulfill its expanded mandate...