Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result the Clinton Administration may come under fire for trying to play politics with airline safety. Last February, White House aides tried to squelch a Transportation Department warning to American travelers about lax safeguards against terrorism at the airport. White House aides feared such a warning would prompt a frosty reception for Hillary Clinton when she visited Athens in March to witness the lighting of the Olympic flame. Outraged FAA officials protested that travelers shouldn't be kept in the dark about the warning--which was required by law. Eventually White House lawyers decided the warning couldn't be skirted...
According to King, Harvard refused to renew insurance coverage of the approximately 18 vans PBHA rents during the summer unless the association's board took prompt action to change the vehicle policy of who could drive its vans...
...crew of a ValuJet DC-9 taxiing in preparation for takeoff from Atlanta heard a loud bang as an engine failed, scattering shrapnel that injured seven passengers and causing a fire that spread to the fuselage. Within 90 seconds smoke had engulfed the passenger compartment. The crew's prompt evacuation of the passengers drew praise from a controller who watched the scene through binoculars--but also caused the FAA to order close inspections of engines ValuJet had purchased from a Turkish airline...
...alas, I found a saving grace just as I began studying last spring for my macroeconomics final. A friend suggested to me that I should type "lynx http://espnet.sportszone.com" at the fas prompt and find all I needed to know. Sure enough, right before my eyes were reports about my home teams, news releases, scores and columns...
Rivlin pointed to peace, a high level of employment, cleaner air and water, prompt federal relief for disasters and stable financial institutions. Given all these positive features of society, Rivlin said that the federal government has already fixed most of the problems that it has the power...