Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe me? Try typing "w-s" at the fas% or husc7% prompt when you're bored one day. (Just be sure to hit Control-C a few times after the list starts scrolling out of control.) You'll get juicy information about who else is logged on, how long they've been idle (that is, not typing anything) and even what program they're using...
...regulatory process on behalf of pharmaceutical companies that contributed to the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the Associated Press reports. The foundation has close ties to Gingrich, supporting a televised college course he teaches. Last September, Gingrich wrote White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, insisting that FDA should give prompt approval to a home AIDS test made by Direct Access Diagnostics, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Both Direct Access Diagnostics and Johnson & Johnson are listed as contributors to the foundation. The amounts or dates of the contributions weren't disclosed by the foundation, but a spokesman said that an average...
Both parties' comments reflect dire suspicions based in sad history. For decades black radicals -- and especially the Nation -- have appeared prone to paranoia; but events have recurrently proved their fears founded. The FBI's claims about Qubilah Shabazz prompt Turner to recall the '60s and '70s, when "there was a well-orchestrated, high-priority program operating from the FBI to destabilize black organizations that were involved in the civil-rights movement and African-American liberation struggle. This was to be done by planting agent provocateurs, providing false documents and sending bogus letters to the heads of various organizations that would...
...much of a U.S. admission that the two flyers had strayed into North Korea's side of the Korean peninsula's demilitarized zone: "That is an unusual display of candor and openness by the United States and we hope it will be reciprocated by the North Koreans in a prompt response." A 45-minute meeting today between U.S. and North Korean officials -- Rep. Bill Richard
Billy Crystal: An exorcism--who else but the devil could prompt the guy to buy front-row Clippers' season tickets...