Word: prompting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...instance, Outlook handles addresses better than Eudora and saves my weary fingers wear and tear. Send or reply to a message, and the recipient's name and address are automatically filed in a directory. Next time you send that person a message, a few keystrokes of the name will prompt Outlook to finish...
Throughout the '80s, Harvard professors for the most part avoided involvement with South Africa in protest of apartheid, and then-president Derek C. Bok was a vocal supporter of work by the U.S. to prompt reform in South Africa...
...recognized by top Democrats, who finally seem to be reading from the same script again. Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt both declared their impatience with Clinton's legal "hairsplitting" Monday; Gephardt called on Congress to use "common sense for the good of the country," while Daschle spoke of a "prompt, appropriate conclusion in the public interest." White House spokesman Jim Kennedy, for his part, made it clear that only a thin line of lawyers stood between the President and an admission that he committed perjury. "No legalisms," said Kennedy, "should obscure the fact that it was wrong...
...many people, the sight of a TV commercial is a prompt to either bolt to the kitchen for a quick bite or hit the remote for a quick escape. But last month Master Lock, a division of Fortune Brands based in Milwaukee, Wis., likely became the first national advertiser to run a one-second ad--snack-proof and zap-proof...
...another Washington correspondent, has spent the past 20 years reporting on the U.S. military. But last October, when a former Pentagon whistle blower tipped him off to deaths by negligence in California nursing homes, the Pulitzer prizewinner plunged in and broke the story for TIME. His reporting also helped prompt the government to take action. Last week President Clinton ordered stricter regulation of nursing homes, and this week the Senate will hold hearings on the matter. Thompson says the hearings are an important chance for Americans to become more aware of the awful conditions in some of the nation...