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In late 1998, the House of Representatives prodded federal banking agencies to require more bank surveillance by overwhelmingly passing a bill that would have forced regulators to issue KYC rules for comment within 120 days
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faulted Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for failing to stop the bomber and, prodded by outraged Israeli hawks, began stalling the agreement to death.
Several weeks later, CIA officers in Kuala Lumpur prodded colleagues in Bangkok for additional information regarding the three travelers.
On Springer's show, men learn their girlfriends are actually boys; wives learn their husbands are sleeping with their sisters or ex-wives or both; women learn that their 13-year-old daughters are strippers or their 60-year-old mothers are whores; fat people are poked and prodded and berated.
McLean Credit Union that prodded Congress to take action.