Word: promptly
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Complexity aside, there is a strong argument that using the tax code is an inefficient and expensive way to accomplish economic or social goals. Most economists will tell you that multiplying IRAs is unlikely to prompt the additional savings the U.S. economy needs; investors may only shift money out of less favored forms of savings. As for college-tuition tax breaks, Richard Murnane, an education professor at Harvard, fears they will turn into "subsidies for middle-class parents sending kids to college. Most middle-class parents do that already, so there's not much gain." Then there...
...Lake City's 1.3 million residents. For the Pentagon, there is a sense of urgency about getting rid of these chemical-laden rockets and bombs, which are crammed into 208 earth-covered igloos. For one thing, the Chemical Weapons Convention ratified by the U.S. Senate last April requires their prompt destruction. But above all, most of the weapons are more than 30 years old, and their aluminum containers have begun to corrode. The Army says continuing to stockpile the weapons, which could be vulnerable to anything from explosions to earthquakes, poses much greater health risks than burning the stuff...
...wise to fly such a derelict ship. With two more Americans still set to ride aboard Mir before this cycle of joint flights ends, in May 1998, many on Capitol Hill want to pull the plug on the missions. "The incident," says Indiana Representative Tim Roemer, "should prompt further debate over how much we are willing to sacrifice for manned space science." NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin doesn't agree, and for now is standing by the Russians. "Things go wrong in space all the time," he told TIME. "Even with a new space station we're going to have problems...
Microsoft no doubt hopes to galvanize others into investing. FCC chairman Reed Hundt believes the deal will prompt the cable industry and then the phone companies to up their investment in interactivity. "For the past year and a half the cable industry has been trying to explain to everybody what they have and how valuable it is," says Hundt. "No one was listening until Gates gave his stamp of approval...
...real reasons are that the networks want Congress to owe them something. All this could make for one big happy TV press conference, except that nbc, the No. 1 rated network, is concerned about how S, L, V will work with the V chip, and that the ratings might prompt more boycott campaigns. Others say nbc is nervous about parents getting a heads up to the sexy language in such top shows as Seinfeld and Friends...