"There will have to be some serious jawboning when they seek investments on their side of the river."

The jawboning of the credit markets seems to include an appeal to Congress to pass the bill.

This kind of official jawboning can slow a decline temporarily.

But the majors are not likely to be cowed by the jawboning.

And he does not think the jawboning of China is something that can bolster sentiment for a long time.

They also involved a laborious jawboning of his own comrades.

In fact, the Japanese Government's move goes beyond mere jawboning.

In recent months, the administration has tried to avoid diplomatic or political controversies as a result of its jawboning.

At the same time, this message appears to be part of the normal jawboning of international negotiations.

Recent jawboning by Fed members has served to demonstrate a vigilance on inflation.

Mr. Ashley pointed out that such jawboning is by no means limited to basketball players.

This jawboning did help the dollar rise more than 3 percent last week, but comments alone will not stabilize the currency.

Well, I haven't seen any jawboning, have you?

And that, plus some jawboning by Japanese officials, has abruptly reversed the yen's slide.

In particular, Beijing should be subjected to some tough "jawboning" over its arms sales to Iran.

It was such jawboning in February that began the dollar's precipitous slide against the yen.

A final decision by the European Commission does not have to be made until July 12, and the jawboning might work.

Others say that the jawboning could be more effective if directed at bank regulators and examiners rather than at banks.

And if his jawboning doesn't work?

He also engages in some jawboning.

But the jawboning has largely failed.

If monetary policy and exchange-rate jawboning don't do the trick, the next medication to try is fiscal policy.

"The E.P.A. will be effectively reduced to a jawboning and consulting role."

The President's exhortation was harmless jawboning.

In fact, the only action by the Federal Government on some of them may be Presidential jawboning - by now, a deeply familiar act.

"It's probably not a bad idea for them to jawbone down expectations," he says.

They are not likely to jawbone themselves very hard.

They need more than one day to jawbone themselves into realizing what they're up against."

Jawboning and peer pressure to keep a prominent company are always worth trying.

Talk radio does not jawbone about your accounting department.

Jawboning the market, he said, "will be ineffective unless backed by action."

Another question is how responsive business leaders will be to jawboning from the White House.

However, he said, "we've been very successful through a campaign of arm twisting and jawboning.

"But they need an action plan that has got real action, not just jawboning for industry.

The Fed must be asking, why tighten when jawboning works so well?"

"It's poor practice for the President to jawbone the Fed.

Jawboning over fees is more common then ever.

The Administration, in effect, is jawboning the regulators first and the bankers second to reverse this trend.

A presidential candidate can properly promise to jawbone Hollywood into responsible behavior on this serious national problem.

Administration officials largely abstained from publicly jawboning the Fed during the spring.

At least jawbone it, and do it in multiple ways.' "

So if jawboning fails, the Fed has only the option of raising short-term interest rates.

I was desperate to work my chin and jawbone down below the choking arm to protect the neck.

"I was trying to jawbone someone," he said.

Congress can "jawbone" the President, but short of enacting new trade legislation it cannot overrule his decision.

"The more the Administration tries to jawbone the dollar up, the more the market will test the downside," he said.

And the Fed is jawboning right back.

The Fed Chairman has al- ready started jawboning them."

But as job growth accelerates, they are trying to calm the markets, and about the only tool they have is jawboning.

He thought elections were won by driving around dusty back roads and jawboning with geezers at the pool hall.