Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...panel of experts has concluded that standard screening tests for ovarian cancer are too imprecise to justify their costs. Blood tests and ultrasound often produce false alarms, which prompt doctors to perform unnecessary exploratory surgery...
Undergraduates with University accounts on the Internet can access the magazine by typing "/scratch/lynx http://hcs/" when they reach the "husc" prompt on their computers...
...Clintons' finances continued to prompt headlines and speculation after the White House released Hillary Rodham Clinton's trading records on the commodities-futures market. The documents revealed that Mrs. Clinton made nearly $100,000 during 1978 and 1979 by investing just $1,000 of her own money. She made her investment on the advice of a lawyer friend who represented one of Arkansas' most powerful companies...
...moderate, low-inflationary 3% -- at least for the rest of the year. That of course is the optimistic scenario. The pessimistic one? Well, there is an old joke about the store owner who was miffed that no one would ask him, "How's business?" -- but when he finally did prompt someone to raise that question, clapped his hand to his head and moaned...
...spent more than I got a playing phone tag before I got a response (and a prompt one) from a Harvard administrator about the very same issue...