And he coaxed balking financiers back to the table when talks ran aground, they said.

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In July he coaxed mouse embryonic stem cells to reconnect the nerves and muscles of paralyzed rats, allowing limited walking.

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Cornelius Loy gave the evening's most melodramatic, and ultimately heartening, performance, in which he coaxed both melodic and violent sounds out of his theremin, played over big, textured electronic tracks.

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He had gone missing on Tuesday and was eventually coaxed back out of the drain by the sound of his owner's voice.

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He left office in 2001, before New Jersey Democrats coaxed him to run again a year later to replace then-Sen.

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Time and again he tried to quit only to be put back on his bike and coaxed up another hill.

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Dr Ardavan is confident that, if the machine can be coaxed into doing this, it will radiate in exactly the way he predicts, providing a tuneable and compact source of high-frequency microwaves in effect, a tabletop pulsar, without the neutron star.

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Along the way he outwitted Rupert Murdoch and John Malone for control of TV Guide Inc. and forced or coaxed the giants Microsoft, Motorola and AOL into licensing deals, using his patents as weapons.

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