Jawboning

That had me thinking about "jawboning" versus actual acts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Saturn was NOT cancelled because it was too expensive; it was cancelled because there was insufficient political constituency to support it AND because the Administration at the time was grubbing for money anywhere they could find it at a time of price controls and economic "jawboning" (policies no longer utilized by the Federal government). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Still, "jawboning" is an inelegant, imprecise and old-fashioned term. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some investors waved off the Fed's language as empty "jawboning," while others found reasons for encouragement in the Fed statement. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Japan, another traditional haven, didn't benefit from the sour mood in markets due to increased "jawboning" by Japanese officials against yen strength. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How much "jawboning" the next President will do in favor of the necessary funding will be interesting, to say the least! ❋ Unknown (2008)

That said, if Bush is not in the mood for "jawboning," he could at least use a little pillow talk with his buddies in Saudi Arabia and get them to open the spigots. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I guess phone service at the White House must have been cut off once Bush took office because on February 10, 2004, when OPEC announced its intention to cut its output by 1 million barrels a day, and crude oil reached a 13-year high in mid-March 2004, there was no "jawboning" on phone to OPEC by the blabber-mouth president. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In December 2008, a Foreign Office civil servant told US diplomats that the government was "jawboning" companies by expressing "severe displeasure" with any investment "inconsistent with UK foreign policy interests". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Why is all the current "jawboning" about Yahoo being a weak company lucky to have such an inflated bid not cause Microsoft to waver from its effort to acquire Yahoo? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Adam Levitin, an associate professor at Georgetown University Law School who is another panelist, said Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is "jawboning" banks to use the government's new injection of hundreds of billions of dollars to lend rather than sit on the money. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We could have argued that we had inherited the problem, then immediately announced a combination of tight budgets, tighter monetary policy, and tougher jawboning—and right from the start we might have broken the psychology that was runaway inflation. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

These are the reasons behind Beijing's jawboning on the issue of its currency manipulation. ❋ Diane Francis (2010)

Perhaps during his second term, President Obama will emulate T.R.'s approach and call the leaders of college sports to the White House for some jawboning about the business of the college game. ❋ Roger I. Abrams (2011)