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Diaz then says that the Food and Drug Administration wants to impose "strict limits on the daily dosage" of ephedrine, the key ingredient in Metabolife, though he concedes (as Ellis prodded him to do in the unedited interview transcript) that "another government agency" (he means the Government Accounting Office) has criticized the FDA's scientific findings.
As part of candidate Clinton's foreign policy brain trust, Holbrooke prodded him to take an interventionist stand, which Clinton did.
Months earlier, after cancellation of the covert capture operation, Clarke had prodded the Pentagon to explore possibilities for military action.
But Einstein wins the triathlon because in addition to acing the science test, he prodded Roosevelt to build the bomb (10 points for defeating totalitarianism), fled Germany and immigrated to the United States (five more points for defeating totalitarianism and five for liberation and justice), and preached pacifism and praised Gandhi (10 more points for liberation and justice).
Specimens can swim in circles when prodded.