Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...airport amid threats from NATO, the move may be a foretaste of a crisis to come. "Milosevic was clearly trying to test the West's commitment to defend Montenegro," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "His quick withdrawal suggests that he was surprised by NATO's prompt reaction. But while it may be delayed, confrontation in Montenegro looks inevitable...
...matter. The Brit female thing worked. Lara was unusual enough to become an icon, and Tomb Raider was addictive enough to prompt millions of men--and, for the first time, large numbers of women--to spend long nights at the console. Smith, who naively thought he'd seen the last of Tomb Raider, had to spend many more long nights (two years' worth per game) devising enough fiendish traps and puzzles for three sequels...
Often the threat of a lawsuit will prompt landlords to grant concessions, he says...
Sinai pointed out that the Republican and Democratic plans of today have not been spelled out in full detail and may not be totally accepted by the presidential candidates who are nominated. Nonetheless, he attempted a summary of their likely economic effects. The Republican plan, he thought, would prompt slightly more economic growth, though only in the first five years, largely by spurring more consumer demand than a fully employed economy might need. Inflation would therefore be a bit higher in the first three years than under the Democratic plan, and interest rates could be significantly higher. On the other...
...took the First Lady's own political ambitions, rather than the much-televised reprising of her husband's scuffles with Monica Lewinsky, to finally prompt Hillary Clinton to move out of the White House - but it may take more than a change of address to beat out Rudy Giuliani. Mrs. Clinton announced Tuesday that she is soon to take the historic step of leaving the President home alone to start campaigning for New York's Senate seat from her new Westchester home (she says they'll rejoin each other on the weekends). The First Lady said she'd make...