Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from muted. While with Pope Paul at the Vatican, he observed incongruously that he was about to visit the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean-"the mightiest military force that exists in the world on any ocean." The Pope gently raised a sensitive topic, expressing his hope for a prompt peace in Viet Nam. Then, in a ten-minute talk to seminarians at the Vatican's North American College, Nixon used the word "power" no fewer than 14 times. He referred to himself "very humbly," as the "President of the strongest nation in the world, with more power perhaps than...
...recommended that all universities formulate codes of proper conduct and announce in advance penalties for violation of the code. In the event of campus violence, it recommended prompt use of law enforcement agencies...
Most telling, perhaps, was the fate of a proposal that recognized the potential role of computers in simplifying and speeding the work of Congress. Legislators find themselves increasingly inundated by tons of laboriously produced reports. It was proposed, therefore, that a computer data bank be established to provide prompt and comprehensive information for lawmakers who want to do their homework properly...
...might that man be? The Record American announced Eliot Richardson. Both Richardson and Harvard issued prompt denials. A member of the Corporation dismissed the story, recollecting that when the Record needed money during the depression, it would make up exciting stories and run off lots of hot extras...
...dismissed the committee as "a fraud." The organizers of Campaign G.M., a group that has been pressing the company to exercise greater social responsibility, complained that the committee "has no blacks, no women, no consumer representatives or environmentalists." The apparent moral: Only tangible and prompt action will quiet G.M.'s persistent detractors...