Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objective should be twofold: in the short run we must increase total demand for both consumption and investment; in the long run we must achieve a more rapid rate of growth of our productivity capacity. The main tool for promoting our economic objectives in 1963 should be a prompt and significant reduction in income tax rates...
Peabody's do-good campaign alienated many Democratic professionals. But Volpe offended some voters by refusing to debate with Peabody, even though Peabody's ad-lib remarks frequently are confusing enough to prompt the crack: "He played football too long without a helmet...
...course, which skirts the edge of the athletic fields near soldier's Field Road, was blocked enough by mud and puddles, to prompt Floyd S. Wilson, Director of Intramural Athletics, to warn the house runners about "getting their feet...
Talk. On the diplomatic front, Adlai Stevenson urged Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant to impress upon the Russians the fact that the missiles must go. Making prompt action even more necessary was the fact that the Navy's twice-daily, low-level reconnaissance flights showed that the Russians were speeding up the erection of missile sites...
...British papers. In New York, after a State Department briefing for Congressmen from the East Coast, Pennsylvania Representative James Van Zandt beat everybody else to the door, where he spilled the news to waiting reporters about the first high-seas interception of a Russian ship. Washington's prompt confirmation of Van Zandt's exclusive sparked a press rush toward Congressmen, many of whom were getting similar briefings...