Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eating the best pasture grass. For these reasons alone, the nation's sheep herders and cattle ranchers not long ago decided the kangaroo had to go, and at last count their vendetta was producing 15,000 to 20,000 kangaroo carcasses a week, a high enough slaughter to prompt one New South Wales Labor Party leader to forecast the disappearance of kangaroos from Australia "the same way bisons disappeared from America...
Poor lighting is the footbridge area is the principal cause of the disturbances according to Tonis. He asked the MDC to install more spotlights. Meting the "close cooperation" between his bureau and the MDC, Tonis said he expects prompt action...
...wager that Audrey will mistakenly assume, silly thing, that Cary is the homicidal thief. There will be a long chase through the Paris Metro, which might prompt one to wonder how any healthy, adult male could fail to attain sufficient speed to catch frail Miss Hepburn clacking along in four-inch heels. In any case, it shall ultimately transpire that Cary is working for the govt. of the US of A (trying merely to repossess its rightful funds) and that the real killer is Audrey's trusted CIA agent, who isn't the CIA agent after all, but only borrowed...
...report is itself the most eloquent testament to the failure of his Council. Despite a long list of reports issued, the HCUA cannot point to one significant policy decision it has influenced. The only tangible achievements are a few minor changes in library rules and exam rooms, and a "prompt and full apology" from the deans when the University announced standard room rents without consulting the Council...
...major deviation" from a smooth relationship came when the University announced the system of uniform room rents before an HCUA committee finished a report on the subject. Seymour noted, however, that the Council had received "a prompt and full apology from the Deans involved...