Word: browbeating
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...Arts and Sciences (FAS) has relatively little authority to coerce tenured Faculty members to do anything: University President Lawrence H. Summers once complained to Newsweek that Harvard was incapable of ordering blackboard erasers in quantities greater than six without a faculty committee. Every year, University Hall has to browbeat delinquent departments to get their course descriptions in for the course catalogue. When the Core Curriculum was instituted in the late 1970s, each Core area was supposed to offer 10 courses every semester (in 1997 that number was raised to 12). But some areas of the Core, like Moral Reasoning, have...
...once he leaves," says an aide, "but the trout he must have." On a long flight abroad, Vajpayee compared his menu with other members of the government party. "He was terribly upset when he discovered he had been singled out for special treatment," says the aide, "and tried to browbeat the in-flight staff into serving him the general meal, which was spicier." Meanwhile, tension seems set to continue between India and Pakistan. But as Vajpayee's ability to steer a moderate course diminishes, he's spending the twilight of his political life where he wants...
...back then, the American public and Congress were divided over the wisdom of going to war, and building a broad international coalition helped convince the doubters of the war's legitimacy. Now the domestic consensus in support of President Bush's war on terrorism will be used to browbeat reluctant allies into acquiescence. How do you say "Let's roll" in Arabic...
...everyone is buying the pleas of poverty, however. "The way you browbeat people into taking less money is to convince them there isn't any," says Fred Halstrom, a Boston lawyer representing a plaintiff in a sex-abuse suit there. "But the Catholic Church worldwide has immense assets." The Vatican itself doesn't cut checks or direct legal strategies to its dioceses around the world. But it is hammering out new procedures for handling future abuse allegations in a "desire to coordinate actions in these delicate matters," says Monsignor Tarcisio Bertone, a Vatican official. The Vatican's new involvement...
...influenced by many factors beside their place of employment, so why shouldn’t caring for them be the government’s job? And what about the non-Harvard poor: do they lose out just because there aren’t any student activists around to browbeat their bosses into submission? Some might argue that since Harvard is an institution of higher learning (oohs and aahs, please) it should be held to a higher standard. But that hardly seems convincing: right is right, and what’s right for Harvard ought to be right for everyone...