Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Slowly but surely, however, the case against Demjanjuk unraveled. KGB records released in 1991 showed that Ivan the Terrible was likely a different man, Ivan Marcenko, who was last known to be living in the Ukraine in 1962. The evidence was compelling enough to prompt the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to open an investigation into possible prosecutorial misconduct by Ryan and other OSI lawyers...
...Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation: "Homosexuality is not something to justify and explain, but something that should be accepted. Until people accept us, all the scientific evidence in the world will not do anything to change homophobia." Moreover, gays are worried that precise identification of a "gayness gene" might prompt efforts to tinker with the genetic code of gay adults or to test during pregnancy and abort potentially gay fetuses. Says Thomas Stoddard, director of the Campaign for Military Service: "One can imagine the science of the future manipulating information of this kind to reduce the number of gay people being...
...Abdel Rahman's bodyguard. He is said to have turned informant partly for money (the FBI reportedly has recommended that he be given a $250,000 bonus for his help), but largely because he thought terrorist killings were betraying, not furthering, the cause of Islam and were likely to prompt a worldwide backlash against Muslims...
...money was lifted from an account the firm had assembled to settle insurance claims against the fatal crash of a TransNational Air plane in 1985. Since TN is by far the firm's biggest and most lucrative account, the missing money could prove especially embarrassing; evidence of embezzlement might prompt the airline's executives to look elsewhere for legal help. So why doesn't Mack just find Bert and persuade him to give the money back...
Rudenstine praised the efforts of the committee in his statement. "I believe the committee has prepared a commendably thorough and persuasive report," he said. "I am pleased to endorse its recommendation, and I am hopeful that we can work toward prompt implementation...