Very quietly and not pressing too much on details at first, getting him talking.

"I don't know where that number of 70,000 came from," said Mr. Vance, who has been quietly pressing the belligerents to release all prisoners for months.

The colleges have been pressing quietly for control over their campus and assets for some time, according to Ms. Wilson.

But he quietly pressed on with determination and skill.

The former can quietly press to win as they usually do without overextending themselves.

American oil companies based in Angola are quietly pressing the Bush Administration to settle the conflict.

It may be, as the Reagan Administration believes, that pressing quietly and politely is more effective than moral lectures or economic and military sanctions.

While American trade negotiators launched a frontal assault, he quietly pressed the Government to ease laws that had made it next to impossible to build large-scale stores.

But they could help by quietly pressing for effective policy changes - and by not responding to chauvinist posturing.