"He told his ministers to goad the villagers into speaking out, " says a civil servant.
"If anything, the service is even more popular than our numbers imply, " said Robin Goad.
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The growing commercial use of Twitter was presenting the network with a few problems, said Mr Goad.
But the risk is that it will take an economic crisis to goad the government into action.
What is extraordinary about the Declaration is that its principles goad us and guide us into realizing its ideals.
If I do not act immediately, she will repeat her complaint about the trespassers, trying to goad me into action.
Like Adams, too, Andrew would seek to goad his adversaries to act, or overreact, creating new opportunities to defeat them.
Kelly suggested Adam's account was a ploy to goad him into testifying.
Schering has decided to press ahead even before the law is changed to treat buy-backs more favourably, hoping to goad legislators into action.
Liberal satirists feel they ought to goad the powerful, but it no longer comes naturally now that George Bush has buzzed back to Texas.
Robin Goad, a research director at Hitwise who has analysed Twitter growth, said businesses were definitely starting to sign up to the micro-blogging service.
Some Twitter users were also starting to send out messages that are only about a product or service - effectively spam, said Mr Goad.
Who else, it asks, will make long-term loans to municipalities (and goad them to privatise services) or help restructure industries such as mining and railways?
"It's interesting in the way it has developed, " said Mr Goad.
John Livingstone, one of the detectives involved in the Goad investigation, told File On 4 that dealing with new evidence brought forward by victims since his conviction had been problematic.
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If Ballmer is Gates' social goad, his intellectual one is Nathan Myhrvold (pronounced Meer-voll), 37, who likes to joke that he's got more degrees than a thermometer, including a doctorate in physics from Princeton.
One possible explanation is that professional investors are selling stocks to goad the Fed into rate cuts, since Bernanke specifically identified weakness in the financial markets -- assuming he meant equities more than commodities -- as a threat to economic growth.
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