Word: promptings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last fall, the Army was more than happy to give MacDonald an honorable discharge when he requested it. But neither the captain nor his father-in-law, Alfred Kassab, was satisfied. Kassab has mounted a petition campaign to members of Congress and others to prompt a new effort to find the intruders he believes killed his daughter and grandchildren. "From now on," says MacDonald, "I'll be thought of as the man who got away with murder." Perhaps not. Responding to a variety of accusations about the case, the Army has said that it will at last investigate...
...almost always right. Here. if nowhere else, the wicked are penalized, and the honest are rewarded. A football game gives us a glimpse of Utopia; a society where freedom flourishes under law. Here the police intervene only when necessary. The decisions of the judges are not only final, but prompt and fair. Hulking titans submit their quarrels to a midget arbitrator-and go along with the call. Finally, note that whereas in the real world the rich get richer and the poor get poorer in what often seems like a geometrical progression, the inverted order of the prodraft pick works...
...first task, as MacGregor knows, will be communications. His own are secure: he will report directly to Nixon rather than through presidential aides. MacGregor promised that all congressional phone calls will be answered within 24 hours; the lack of prompt response is a point of much criticism. MacGregor may increase his office's staff as much as 50%. He also vowed to let Congressmen know exactly where the President stands on pending legislation. Says MacGregor: "I'm going to be in the position of a lawyer with one client and a jury of 535. The cause is attractive...
Pursued to the extreme, the trend toward fragmentation of trading could return markets to a primitive condition, in which investors would have to guess how many shares of what securities were traded and at what price. Few, if any, of the other markets have the prompt reporting of price and volume information that the Big Board does. They also lack the elaborate mechanisms that the N.Y.S.E. has developed to guard against chicanery...
Dean May felt the Nixon administration was acting in a way "consistent with their analysis" of the situation. "I suppose it's a signal to North Vietnam that the American government is prepared to take 'prompt and efficient' action, if the North Vietnamese explicitly or implicitly refuse to accept a 'just peace,'" he said...