Word: promptness
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...These were purposefully designed to prompt discussion, rather than to be cases for decision making," notes Provost Harvey, V. Fineberg '67, who led the University committee that devised the new policy...
...Salts does not disappoint. The salt is offered in a wide, black matte clay bowl, offset by a simple wooden spoon. The restaurant's name is a reference to the ancient practice of offering salt as a sign of hospitality. Apropriately enough, the waitstaff is remarkably hospitable and prompt, and capably serving the spot's unusually delicious food...
...Birmingham, Ala., Eric Robert Rudolph strolled into a video store near his mobile home in the mountains of North Carolina, his hair still damp from a shower, and rented an action-adventure movie. He returned it the next morning and rented another tape. "He's always been very prompt," says clerk Dedra McGrady, "in returning his rentals...
...virus has shown no evidence of reassortment. The fact that the outbreak happened in December, before Hong Kong's regular flu season, reduced opportunities for reassortment, as did the prompt slaughter of the chickens. But the flu season is coming. It will peak in late February and early March, with a second peak this summer. What researchers fear most is that someone infected with a common flu strain will also become infected with H5, and thus become an inadvertent mixing chamber for the production of a wholly new virus...
...sentence to be commuted, will block her execution. Bush, a law-and-order Republican facing a re-election campaign this year, would seem to gain little politically by such a move. Moreover, there simply are not the requisite legal questions or doubts about her guilt that might prompt commutation. Pardon has never been given to anyone in Texas based on religious conversion...