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But there was a greater prod to Southern memory: defeat.
The Los Angeles Times leads with the Clinton administration's plan to send the Treasury Dept.'s international trade point man to Tokyo to prod the Japanese to stabilize the yen.
When Hadley circulated a memorandum attempting to prod the deputies to reach agreement, McLaughlin sent it back with a handwritten comment on the cost-sharing:"we question whether it is advisable to make such an investment before the decision is taken on flying an armed Predator."
Dentists also prod patients to replace perfectly functional gray-metal fillings with tooth-colored plastic ones and to dump their solid gold crowns for white porcelain.
Census Bureau, Poverty in the United States: 1998, http://www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/p60-207.pdf