Word: prompted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that there is nothing improper in their relationship. Their associates add that both "are cooperating fully" in the second investigation. However, Tail's firm will no longer function as an FBI "cutout" until the investigation is completed. Justice Department officials are now hoping that the new investigation may prompt Kelley to take a long step toward completing the housecleaning that began after J. Edgar Hoover's death...
...serious and several of the curators have done an exemplary job. Nobody attentive to American culture can leave the Whitney without having his or her ideas about sculpture in this country-its history, quality and social role-changed and stimulated. The first thing that strikes one is the prompt, and precipitous, decline of American sculpture after the arrival of the white man: until the late 19th century, the white tribes of America could produce nothing that came close to Indian art in vitality, beauty or density of meaning. The point is made very succinctly by a room of Indian carvings...
...decision, the Washington NLRB handed down a seemingly contradictory ruling in a similar case involving workers at Columbia University's off-campus research facilities. The regional director's decision has thus been discredited in the eyes of the union by both the inability of Fuchs to reach a prompt finding and the Columbia decision...
Many Democrats found that argument persuasive, and the House voted 246 to 124 to require the Pike committee to delete the disputed material before formally issuing its report. The rebuke came too late, since the sensitive information has already been disclosed. The dispute will probably prompt Congress to adopt tougher standards on secrecy than might otherwise have been the case. For example, Tennessee Republican Senator William Brock has sponsored legislation that would punish congressional staff members with fines of up to $100,000 and jail terms of up to 20 years for leaking secret information...
...under the influence when the car careened off the bridge? And most importantly, why didn't Kennedy call for help, and why did he wait so long to report the accident? The diver who retrieved Kopechne's body, John Farrar, said that Mary Jo could have been saved by prompt rescue action, and in light of that evidence the last question is the most damning...