Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Normally that kind of talk would prompt indignant editorials defending freedom of the press. But few journalists are eager to defend the methods of a publication that San Francisco Examiner Editor Reg Murphy calls "a disgrace to journalism." Says Syndicated Gossip Columnist Liz Smith of the decision: "It is no precedent against the First Amendment. Responsible publishers, journalists and columnists can go on being fair-minded and work with impunity...
...China fails to solve the problem, the Japanese people will be very disappointed." A senior Bonn economics ministry official was more blunt: "When we sign contracts, we honor them, even if it is a tremendous hardship for us. We expect our business partners to do likewise." Only the prompt payment of "sufficient compensation" could alleviate "doubts about Chinese reliability," said Heinrich Weiss, the board chairman of Schloemann-Siemag...
...President is also taking a long chance that the deep tax cuts he wants will prompt savings, investment and hard work, and thus healthy economic growth. They could instead deepen deficits, lead to a consumer buying spree, or both; either would make inflation worse...
...wage and salary) income at 50%. That annoyed New York Congressman Jack Kemp, co-author of the tax plan whose main features Reagan adopted: Kemp had thought the rate would come down to 36%. He and others argue that deep tax cuts are especially needed in high brackets to prompt the wealthy to switch money out of tax shelters into more productive savings and investment...
...combat the "reign of terror in American cities," the nation's top judge called for greater stress on the "deterrent effect" of "swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty, and-at some point-finality of judgment." He suggested hiring more prosecutors, defenders and judges so that a defendant could be tried within a few weeks of arrest, rather than months, and get his appeal heard within eight weeks. One round of direct appeals per defendant, he argued, should be enough...