He counselled the president on strategy, and kept his ramshackle coalition together with a mix of blunt public criticism and private blandishment or arm-twisting.

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She uses no blandishment other than large scale to emphasize the potent fact that all of us, knowingly or not, are continuously moving through time.

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"To people who are really only distantly connected, I'm not sure the blandishment of Facebook wall posting would necessarily be all that influential, " Green said.

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Soon enough, Reisman found herself in a world of blandishment and betrayal, of half-truths and machination worthy of Hollywood, as venture capitalists jockeyed for the chance to crown a winner in the latest Internet game (see box, p. 139).

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