Word: promptly
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...billion stock swap. The merger of the two huge but weak Goliaths, both burdened by hefty portfolios of ailing loans, will create a megabank with assets of $137 billion, second in size among U.S. banks only to New York's Citicorp. Moreover, the deal is likely to prompt a new wave of mergers across the country as other big banks struggle to remain competitive...
...best ones. Americans are more casual, even disdainful about ads, but when they gather at their back fences or around office water coolers, they discuss them as avidly as they do the shows that surround them. The five-day Cannes festival celebrates the wit and imagination that prompt that interest. As New Zealander John Doig of the McCaffrey and McCall agency put it, "We come here to remind ourselves that ads don't just sell. They also make the little hairs stand up on the back of the neck...
Framers of Louisiana's bill hope it can provide the test case that will prompt the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. But Louisiana's law is competing for that distinction against existing laws in three other jurisdictions...
...person who is arrested without a warrant is entitled to a "prompt" ruling by a judge to determine whether the arrest was lawful. But what does "prompt" mean? Last week the Supreme Court held, in a 5-to-4 vote, that suspects may generally be jailed for as long as 48 hours. While the decision was in line with the court's recent law-and-order tilt, there was a surprise dissenter: conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. Arguing that a 24-hour delay was the constitutional limit, Scalia fumed, "Hereafter a law-abiding citizen wrongfully arrested may be compelled to await...
College administrators are carefully monitoring the situation, and any such drastic change will probably prompt an appeal to Congress to pass legislation permitting them to renew the overlap process...