Word: goad
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Although inside Serbia, the ethnic-Albanian villages fall within the demilitarized zone established at the end of the Kosovo conflict, which allows Belgrade to maintain only police units there. The nationalist attacks on Serbian policemen appear to mimic the earlier strategy of the KLA, which used such attacks to goad Belgrade into a brutal response that eventually drew in NATO...
...polls, the mood in Austin, Texas, was one of unflappable calm. George W. Bush's advisers had predicted Gore's surge; now they were saying it wouldn't last. All Bush had to do, a senior aide said, was stay focused on his message and not let Gore goad him into a fight. "We need to keep from falling into the trap of looking at what they're doing and then responding...
...Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty would be scrapped altogether if Russia refused to renegotiate it to allow Washington to proceed," says TIME Brussels bureau chief James Graff. "They see it as another sign of growing unilateralism on Washington's part, and they're very worried that the proposal will goad Russia into launching a new arms race. European fears will evaporate if Moscow comes around to accepting Washington's terms, but right now there's no sign of that occurring." And Clinton's offer to share the technology did little to pacify his European critics, since even if they accepted...
...country. Under siege from the media--and the Interior Minister, who warned her of the bad health care in England--Casta went on French television to claim she was not permanently relocating, but not before opposition politicians used the controversy to attack the country's tax laws and goad Prime Minister Lionel Jospin into pledging cuts in the income tax. There's nothing like a babe to speed up the wheels of bureaucracy...
According to Riley, at a rally a few years ago, a student from another Boston school participating in a rally at Harvard attempted to goad the crowd into throwing rocks through the windows of Mass Hall...