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...several other countries are officially still at war with what they term the "Zionist entity") and call off their boycott of foreign companies that do business with the Jewish state. The idea is that if each side could overcome its fear of going first and being snubbed, concessions might prompt reciprocal concessions and build some momentum toward peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Ready, Set -- Crawl | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...composition of the date rape committee and the way in which its members were appointed also suggest that public access to its sessions would prompt useful feedback from the community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open The Process | 3/14/1991 | See Source »

Meehan predicts that the weak dollar will also prompt many West Europeans to travel to the U.S. in the near future. "If something terrible had happened in the U.S. airports, there may have been some hesitancy but the European traveler is not as terrorized as the American," he says...

Author: By Yin Y. Nawaday, | Title: With War Over, International Travel Expected to Rise Again | 3/6/1991 | See Source »

...occupied West Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights; no talk of a Middle East peace conference. It did not demand any pullout of allied forces from the gulf area, a key point in Baghdad's proposals less than a week earlier. And this time Iraq did agree to a prompt exchange of prisoners. But the plan still conspicuously failed even to mention some key allied concerns, notably restoration of the preinvasion Kuwaiti emirate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battleground: Marching to A Conclusion | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...dean will need to convince University administrators of the importance of educational issues, and prompt them to reevaluate the school's funding relative to that of other graduate schools, says Snow, who calls the Ed School's financial state "perilous...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: The Ed School's Dean Graham Leaves a Legacy of Innovation | 2/8/1991 | See Source »

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