Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COMING FROM JACK QUINN, THE NEW White House counsel, the internal memo sent around last month was odd for being so elementary. It ordered staff members to give their "full and prompt attention" to document requests from investigators probing the Whitewater affair. "Nothing less will do," wrote Quinn, urging strict compliance. "Two years too late," commented a White House aide...
...right before they left, had their machines infected and then left without knowing it," said Frank M. Steen, director of Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services. Symptoms of viral infection include an inability to access or load Windows with a repeated response of "Missing/Unable to load" at the C:> prompt...
...hoping that the prizes, food and entertainment will prompt people to come by," Engel said. "If nothing else, it's a good time to try all different kinds of food...
...water and prayed that the Serbs' artillery barrage would not fall on them--would be captured. The dream of "Greater Serbia" might be realized. Our anguish mingled with the faint hope that the international community's latest humiliation might be its last, that the fall of Srebrenica would prompt the Western powers to respond...
POLICE PROCEDURE. To blacks who read the acquittal as a righting of scales that had been weighted against them, the glaring injustice for O.J. was police negligence, not to mention Detective Mark Fuhrman's bigotry. Investigators came off looking like Keystone Kops, which will certainly prompt a new skepticism about police testimony in all sorts of proceedings. Suggests prominent San Francisco trial lawyer John Martel, a Simpson prosecution consultant: "Perhaps an enlightened society has to pay a price like that to learn of the depth and cost of police misconduct, not just in Los Angeles but elsewhere...