Like Adams, too, Andrew would seek to goad his adversaries to act, or overreact, creating new opportunities to defeat them.
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?
Liberal satirists feel they ought to goad the powerful, but it no longer comes naturally now that George Bush has buzzed back to Texas.
"He told his ministers to goad the villagers into speaking out, " says a civil servant.
But the risk is that it will take an economic crisis to goad the government into action.
If I do not act immediately, she will repeat her complaint about the trespassers, trying to goad me into action.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some Twitter users were also starting to send out messages that are only about a product or service - effectively spam, said Mr Goad.
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