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Thus, while Clarke might prod or push agencies to act, what actually happened was usually decided at the State Department, the Pentagon, the CIA, or the Justice Department.
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.
Census Bureau, Poverty in the United States: 1998, http://www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/p60-207.pdf
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.
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.