Word: prompting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Actually .the Justice Departments concern goes back much farther. A grand jury impaneled last year turned up evidence enough to prompt an investigation of steel-price rises dating to 1956. Justice is trying to connect these price increases not to formal meetings and written agreements among policy-making steelmen, but to informal contacts on the golf links or at trade meetings. Presumably, however, Bobby Kennedy's men also hope to dissuade other industries from raising prices and kicking off an inflationary spiral during an election year, and to persuade labor unions that the Kennedy Administration is not "soft...
...Kennedy!"-plainclothesmen moved in to confiscate their cameras. As they tried to protect their equipment, Grant Wolfkill and John Sharkey of NBC and David Halberstam of the New York Times were beaten; all three required hospitalization. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge made a prompt protest to the Vietnamese government...
...Malayan students' call for military training drew prompt answer from Mohammed Sopice, government information services director, who declared the government would give their demand urgent consideration. He praised the students for setting a good example for the rest of Malaysia, born a week ago by linking the former British colonies of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah (North Borneo...
...nullifying the purpose of the tax cut. "This nation," he said, "has had a recession on the average of every 42 months since the second World War-or every 44 months since the first World War. By January, it will have been 44 months since the last recession began. Prompt enactment of this bill will make the most of the antirecession thrust that this tax cut can provide." Despite the President's argument, Ways and Means came within a hair of approving Byrnes's amendment. It was voted down, 12 to 11, with two conservative Democrats abstaining-less...
...pregnant woman's viral infections may damage the baby in four ways: 1) by causing prompt abortion; 2) by killing the fetus, leading to later stillbirth; 3) by preventing normal development of organs, so that the baby is born deformed; 4) by infecting the baby so that its first days or weeks of independent life are an uphill struggle against disease. Viruses may strike at any time from the first few days after conception to the moment of delivery...