Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hutton. Since Fomon took over as chief executive in 1970, he has managed to turn Hutton into one of Wall Street's most dynamic performers while at the same time eluding takeover bids by other financial companies. But its independence is growing tenuous. Hutton's shake-up could prompt some senior executives and other large stockholders to welcome a takeover offer. That could make Hutton an easier acquisition target for such firms as Phibro-Salomon, the investment company, or Chrysler, which has been seeking to buy a financial subsidiary. While Hutton executives hope that Bell's report will...
These mysterious events prompt an investigation by a shrewd, vinegary London barrister named Henry Ayscough, acting on behalf of a duke whose son is believed to be the vanished traveler. Most of the novel unfolds through Ayscough's persistent, painstaking inquiry, and it makes gripping reading indeed, part detective story, part crackling courtroom drama. A vivid gallery of the English underclasses passes under the lawyer's scrutiny. Testimony is offered on London brothel life, moonlit rituals at Stonehenge, witchcraft and an odd prefiguring of science fiction in a cavern beneath the Devon moors...
...Episcopal Church, have admitted women into the clergy, the Church of England, the parent body, has refused to follow their example. Leaders in the mother church have feared that such a move would end all hope of future reunion with Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox, and prompt wholesale defections of Church of England traditionalists...
...runs her school on a bilingual basis, switching back and forth so that students take one class in English and another in their native tongue. Whatever language they use, Bruno's charges are getting the message: 86% of her 1,130 students read English at grade level. Such results prompt Bruno, and thousands like her, to brush aside the furor over bilingual education. "If the kids are learning," she asks, "who cares...
...President chose to follow a middle course: he reserved the right to engage in selective retaliation for any Soviet violations that might occur in the future. Moscow was prompt in denouncing the decision as "crawling out" of arms control. On the contrary, Reagan did not want to jeopardize the prospects for progress in the arms talks now under way in Geneva. The new negotiations, he concluded, are difficult enough without having the U.S. cast into doubt whether it intends to abide by the old agreements...