Word for Today - Sept 3, 2009

prescribe - pre-SCRIBE - to advocate, ordain, recommend

Example: "Recalling the vicious attacks by the right wing & insurance companies on then President Clinton's 1993 health plan, which destroyed it, Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, said today that Mr. Obama would be 'more strongly prescriptive than he has been to date,' adding, 'and we have a tremendous amount of consensus in Congress to build off of.'"