Word: swaying
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...DOUBT, the infant mortality/abortion rights connection will not sway the most ardent opponents of abortion. If a nine-week fetus is the moral equivalent of a baby, then there is no inconsistency in letting more post-birth babies die for the sake of an equal or greater number of "unborn babies." But the vast majority of the American population (and, arguably, the U.S. Congress) does not accept the radical equation of fetus and baby. Even George Bush agreed with other world leaders at the recent World Summit for Children that "there can be no task nobler than giving every child...
Taste is a severe taskmaster at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. The not-for-profit Culinary, or "the other C.I.A.," as it is often called, is perhaps the nation's most influential training school for professional cooks and has ambitious plans to extend its sway. The institute, with an enrollment of 1,850 (23% female, about 12% minority) and a faculty of 100, has a roster of 22,000 alumni that includes such celebrity chefs as Debra Ponzek of New York City's Montrachet restaurant and Dean Fearing of the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas...
Jillson denies that threatening to sue is only a scare tactic meant to sway council votes. "When you are denied continually, you figure you have nothing to lose, so you'll be as outrageous as possible," she says...
Many key plant managers and technicians at Chernobyl knew nothing about nuclear technology. Patronage held sway over professionalism when it came to filling top jobs that carried prestige and good pay. The accident, ironically, occurred during a safety exercise, when incompetent managers exposed the core, depriving it of vital cooling water...
Research by psychologist Alison Clarke-Stewart of the University of California at Irvine illustrates how easily adults can sway children's perceptions. In that study 75 five- and six-year-old children were asked to % watch a man clean up a room. During that time, he picked up and cleaned a doll. Later an interviewer told the children she thought the man had been playing with the doll. When first questioned, 25% of the kids said the man had played with the doll, and the rest said he had cleaned it. The interviewer then told the children she was certain...