Word: promptness
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...letter, the Random House lawyer Lee told Little, Brown: “[W]e would appreciate your prompt and serious attention to this matter...
Shapin said he hopes to prompt discussion about improving the undergraduate program and noted the success of his predecessor...
After Providence, R.I. became the first American city to divest from companies linked to Sudan last week, a student at Brown University—who helped organize the city’s divestment movement—said he hopes the decision will prompt other cities to do the same.The national drive towards divestment was ignited in 2004 by Harvard’s campaign for University divestment from the oil stock PetroChina, a company involved with the Sudanese government’s ongoing genocide in the western region of Darfur. Since then, other universities and even states have pulled their funds...
...candidate and choosing a side. Ironically, there's probably nothing more divisive than these studies themselves; whatever academic value they may have, they are a blessing to cable news stations, easy fodder for talking heads. The shoutfests are virtual as well: the words "study" and "more likely to" can prompt the creation of whole galaxies in the blogosphere...
...help you see if your crush from section is online and ready to chat, and generally spruce up your macking skills. For those lovelorn technological incompetents out there, here’s the breakdown—nice and simple. At the “fas%” prompt, type in the Unix code “finger,” followed by the username of your on-campus sex god to find out if they’re online and ready for some unadulterated Unix fun. If lightning strikes, and Unix says your beau has been...