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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.
The networks and most stations refused to sell Seagram air time because they feared liquor ads would prod Congress into investigating the proliferation of beer ads on television.
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."
But there was a greater prod to Southern memory: defeat.
Census Bureau, Poverty in the United States: 1998, http://www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/p60-207.pdf