Word: promptings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the breakthrough has been achieved, though, what does it really mean? In direct terms, not much for the general economy. A rising market tends to make people feel richer, and thus the publicity attending the breaching of 1000 might possibly prompt some additional consumer buying. John W. Corcoran, chief economist of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a Manhattan investment house, also notes that higher stock prices make it easier for businessmen to raise money, by selling new shares or borrowing. At most, however, these are indirect effects...
Errett McDiarmid, Rhodes adviser at the University of Minnesota, said yesterday that he hoped Lach's nomination will help to prompt revision of the Rhodes will. "Oxford is more receptive to women today than at the time when Cecil Rhodes lived," he said...
...rest of the world, and refuses to do anything to reduce them (TIME, Oct. 9). Japanese newspapers interpreted his speech as an attempt to push Japan into revaluing the yen, and their screaming headlines touched off a brief panic on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Result: the Japanese government took prompt action to bring in more imports and give less encouragement to exporters...
...effects on laboratory animals. When these experiments showed no apparent side effects from the substance, the team administered it to 18 women suffering from severe depression. In a preliminary test at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., eight of the women who received a single injection of TRH experienced prompt, though in all cases, short-term improvement...
Testimony by legislators, lawyers, press organizations and others overwhelmingly favored prompt congressional action. Without a sound law, they argued, sources of information would simply dry up out of fear of being exposed. Only the right of silence would leave the press free to fulfill its traditional watchdog mission. As one example, William Small of CBS testified that the network had been forced recently to drop a segment of a program on welfare fraud when it could not promise its informant anonymity...