Word: promptly
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...stakes for the President, meanwhile, have escalated. By sending Christopher abroad and calling for prompt action after the Bosnian-Serb rejection, Clinton generated momentum toward a confrontation. It would be awkward for him to back down. "Once you say you're going to do something," explained a congressional leader who was briefed by Aspin last week, "you have to do it. There is no turning back without a big cost." Even so, Clinton is not planning to order any military moves unilaterally or suddenly. He intends to ask Congress for a vote of confidence and the U.N. Security Council...
That would be a start; serious air strikes may force the Bosnian Serbs to agree to the peace plan. But they may not. Bombing may even prompt the Serbs to launch a last, desperate offensive. Troops must be on standby for this possibility--United Nations troops which include a U.S. presence, but are drawn predominantly from European countries...
...more soundly -- than those taking enalapril. The second study tested six drugs and found that their effectiveness at controlling blood pressure depended on who was taking them. Diltiazem worked especially well for black men, captopril for younger white men, and atenolol for older white men. The results will undoubtedly prompt studies in women as well...
Last Tuesday, after being on the job only 11 days, Attorney General Janet Reno had the Justice Department moving and shaking. She requested the prompt resignation of all 93 U.S. Attorneys around the country "to build a team" that represents "my views" and those of the President. Although expected eventually, the move triggered alarms at the Washington prosecutorial office, which has been probing the finances of a key Democratic floor captain, House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski. Reno insists there was "no linkage"' between the dismissals and the probe, which insiders say will continue...
...Yeltsin who would not be much worse for the causes of free- market democracy in Russia and friendliness between the Kremlin and the White House. The Russian's promise of democracy as the goal of an interim semi-dictatorship gave the Administration a plausible excuse for making its support prompt and public -- though some officials confided that the backing would have been forthcoming, reluctantly, even if Yeltsin had acted more autocratically than...