Word: prompted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas: "Most lupus victims can now expect to live reasonably decent lives." One reason: improved blood tests are letting doctors diagnose lupus earlier than ever. (As in Joan's case, the Wasserman test often turns up lupus quite accidentally.) Another reason: prompt detection has been accompanied by introduction of more effective treatments...
...shadow over new seniority systems, benefiting minorities, that have been negotiated between companies and unions; when those contracts come up for renegotiation, white unionists may argue that there is no court compulsion to keep the new systems. Some lawyers predict that another effect of the ruling will be to prompt a flood of "reverse discrimination" suits by white males claiming that they were held back so that women and blacks could catch up. The leading reverse-discrimination case, filed by a white student who was denied admission to the University of California at Davis Medical School, is headed for argument...
Education experts, like Senator Edward Brooke (R., Mass.), ranking minority member on the HEW-Labor subcommittee on appropriations, fear that the money crunch will force schools to "mainstream" ill-prepared students into regular classrooms rather than putting them in small special classes. This could prompt a parental backlash. Says Professor Frances Connor, chairman of the special education department of Columbia University's Teachers College: "If you had a child who was just about at the entry level for college, and you felt that his needs were not being met because the handicapped children required a lot of the teacher...
...immediate danger of an unanswered Soviet arms buildup is that it could prompt other countries to bow to Moscow's demands in some future diplomatic crisis. Explains London's Burt: "If the U.S. decided not to keep pace with the Soviets in strategic competition, it could signal a lack of resolve to America's allies." Another danger is that the Soviets may try to take advantage of either a real or merely a perceived superiority and expand their sphere of influence. Says General David C. Jones, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff: "In many parts of the world, the Soviets...
...petition asks Rosovsky to take prompt action on the proposal, which he received over three weeks...