Word: promptly
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...member SAS wrote to Queen Noor in March and were excited to receive a prompt acceptance of the invitation the following month, said SAS Vice-President Muna G. Sukhtian...
Students can vote for their house or Yard district representatives by logging into the "fas" network and typing "ucvote" at a "%" prompt...
Still, however absurd the thought of Harvard as anything but the leader of the pack, the results do prompt some soul-searching...
...same serious drawback. Because they target all dividing cells, they also kill off normal tissue in the skin, hair and bone marrow. The next generation of anticancer agents, however, promises to be much more selective. By targeting oncogenes, for example, researchers hope to switch off the signals that prompt cancer cells to divide in the first place. Particularly promising is a class of drugs known as farnesyltransferase inhibitors, which have been shown to shrink tumors while sparing normal tissues. "Oncology is not a profession that inspires optimism," admits Dr. Allen Oliff, director of cancer research at Merck & Co. "But these...
...Rochester, Minnesota, Dr. Moses Rodriguez is testing the use of antibodies as catalysts for the making of myelin in MS patients. Antibodies with a low affinity for myelin-producing cells in the central nervous system may stimulate these cells to divide and develop. Thus, Rodriguez argues, paralysis patients may prompt their own bodies to produce the myelin their axons need...