Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow computer that handles international calls. Although all telex lines and a few phone links continued to function sporadically, most Muscovites trying to reach an international operator were told brusquely to "please call later." Communications eventually were restored, but in rumor-rife Moscow, the event was unusual enough to prompt immediate speculation that a change of leadership, possibly involving ailing President Leonid Brezhnev, was in the works, even though there was scant evidence to support that conclusion...
Most finance ministers and central bankers attending last week's meeting urged a dramatic and prompt increase in contributions by IMF member states as a way to help boost the organization's capital reserves, from a current level of $67 billion to perhaps as much as double that amount. That would not only provide more funds for the IMF to lend out to developing countries, but would also decrease those nations' dependence upon private banks for money...
...shift their perspectives from that pre-college transition. Yet that's exactly what the current crisis of quality so desperately demands. Consequently, old-school admissions officials try to deal with today's deficiencies by tinkering with the admissions process, blindly hoping that high schools' traditional admissions anxiety will prompt them to upgrade their curricula...
...prison-population bomb, however, as it consumes ever bigger chunks of austere government budgets, may finally prompt reasoned debate and sensible action. What frustrates wardens most is that while prisons have probably never been more salvageable, they are too overburdened to do their business well. "All I feel we can do," says Stateville Assistant Warden Salvador Godinez, 29, "is to try to avoid debilitating these guys. Look, 95% of them are going...
...soon to be repeated in Cleveland (the Press). Instead, the Tribune Co. reversed field and proclaimed it would keep operating indefinitely, but with a daunting proviso: the city's traditionally intransigent news paper unions, which had watched six papers die since 1950, would have to endorse a prompt elimination of about 1,300 of the paper's 5,000 jobs. Warned William Kennedy, president of the pressmen's union: "It may not be worth...