Word: prompt
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...Sixers stand out as particularly glaring examples. In all of these instances, the city’s heart was broken. Each time the city went so far as to outfit City Hall’s William Penn statue with the home team’s cap, only to suffer prompt and devastating defeat...
...Ratzinger has recently re-emerged as the top papal candidate from within the Vatican hierarchy, joining other front runners such as Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan and Claudio Hummes of Sao Paolo. Vatican sources have told TIME that the length of the current papacy - now more than 26 years - may prompt the Cardinals to seek a shorter-term "transitional" figure. Ratzinger, 77, may fill that bill. His reputation as a hardline doctrinaire has given way to a sense that he knows how to balance old-school tradition and modern pragmatism...
Some couture lovers hope that Armani's first outing will prompt other Italian designers, such as Dolce & Gabbana, to attempt handcrafted lines too, bringing with them the excitement of new names. But Armani says he's not interested in being couture's knight in shining armor. "I am not the savior of anyone," he says. "No one in France needs me as a savior...
FAIR President Kent Greenfield, a professor of law at Boston College, called for prompt action to suspend the 1996 statute...
Summers said last night he agrees that the 80-hour workweek for academic scientists is “a social convention” and “that it clearly has the effect of favoring men.” He said he hoped his comments would prompt researchers to consider ways to make academic careers more compatible with family life...