Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Announcement of the U.S. decision drew a prompt response from the Kremlin. U.S. membership on the military committee, shrilled an Arabic-language broadcast from the Soviet Union, is dangerous to the existence of peace-loving Arab states. It "provides the Pentagon with new opportunities of encouraging Baghdad Pact members to organize various provocations and plots and to interfere with the affairs of Arab countries...
...treasury that has already cut the province's debt to $90 million, financed large-scale grants to local schools and municipalities, and has built up a $347 million surplus. Some of the bonus money will also go to enrich the federal government, since tax authorities in Ottawa were prompt to rule that Alberta citizens will have to declare and pay federal income taxes on the money from Edmonton...
...down by Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democrats for a reunification of the long-divided Italian Social ists. While owlish Pietro Nenni beamed down from the red-streamered dais of Venice's Teatro San Marco, 1,000 Congress delegates overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for a prompt merger with the Social Democrats...
...widest single-day break in eight months. The market rallied Wednesday, until a selling surge was set off by President Eisenhower's warning that the Government might have to impose wage and price controls. By that time not even Secretary of Commerce Weeks's prompt assurance that no controls were planned was enough to stop the downtrend. Next day the market dropped through the 1957 low set two days before. At week's end the market steadied, but the Dow-Jones average ended the day at 466, nearly 11 points off from the previous week. Wall Streeters...
...chewing over their ideas, looking for the best solution. Says Galvin: "What we have accomplished is to create an atmosphere where people don't mind making unusual suggestions in conferences. We've found that we can sometimes get through certain problems more quickly. A rash idea may prompt a useful...