Word: prompted
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Officials from the health services at all four schools say that appointments with most specialists first require a referral from a primary care visit. But while nonurgent cases often take a back seat for weeks at Harvard and Yale and Penn, Princeton students receive more prompt attention...
...achieve in his first 100 days -- or even his first 1,000 days -- in the Oval Office. Clinton declared last week that "the American people understand that these problems are of long duration and there won't be any overnight miracles. But I think they expect aggressive and prompt action," he added, "and I'm going to give it to them...
...ECONOMY. Everything else is secondary. He knows it, and the nation expects it. The question is how to deliver. After promising change and offering hope during the campaign, the President-elect is currently counseling caution and patience. Each bow to urgency (the people want "aggressive and prompt action, and I'm going to give it to them") is coolly qualified: "We didn't get into this mess overnight, and we won't get out of it overnight...
Tattoos, pacemakers, and even staples have all been located in or on cadavers, says Elbert Huang, and often prompt students to hypothesize about the person's life. "We made up this story about him," says Sherleen Huang. Her cadaver's tattoo, large size and physical fitness made her think he may have been in the military...
...opposite end of the spectrum are inflammatory diseases like arthritis and multiple sclerosis, in which things have got a bit too sticky. Normally, inflammation is part of the healing process. At a wound site, for example, chemical signals prompt the cells of nearby blood vessels to produce more CAMs, turning the vessels into a kind of biological flypaper that attracts platelets, leukocytes and other repair cells to the scene of destruction. Once healing is under way, the signals subside so the vessels lose their stickiness and inflammation recedes. But in a disease like arthritis, the chemical signal is always present...