Word: promptness
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Most distressingly, the foibles in the fiction of September Tapes prompt a host of all too easily answered questions that distract from the substantive reflection that the film would otherwise promote. The viewer asks himself: Why does Lars have a trace of a British accent? Because Calil is English. Why do Lars and Wali, formally introduced at the start of the film, immediately act as if they have known each other for some time? Because Calil and Razaqi have. Would Lars be better off without his iPod during machine gun skirmishes with the Taliban? Yes, despite the iPod?...
...warning labels on antidepressant medications. The source of their concern: a number of scientific studies and anecdotal reports that have surfaced over the past year showing that severely depressed youngsters who take the drugs may be at increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior. If the proposed warning labels prompt closer monitoring of children who are being treated for depression and dampen the cavalier way some health-care providers have been handing out these drugs, so much the better. But it would be tragic if the recommended changes amount to an informal...
...York Mercantile Exchange futures - amid fears of political unrest in the wake of oil-rich Venezuela's recall referendum on President Hugo Chávez. The soaring price might not signal a return to the 1970s oil shocks, but it was enough to cause stock markets to tumble and prompt economic leaders to warn of the threat to global economic growth. Right on cue, here comes Saudi Arabia to save the day. Last week the kingdom said it was prepared to pump an extra 1.3 million bbl. a day to bridge the supply gap. Normally, even the hint...
Ever since the euro was introduced in 1999, financial experts have predicted that it would lead to the sweeping, Continent-wide consolidation of many European industries, particularly the crowded banking sector. The dream was that a single European currency would leap over national priorities and prompt banks to reach across borders for merger partners, the better to compete with America's megabanks. But a funny thing happened on the way to banking consolidation: nothing. Except for a few small deals, such as the 2000 takeovers of Bank Austria by Munich-based HVB, and Unidanmark by Swedish-Finnish lender MeritaNordbanken, banks...
What they discovered is that modern stresses prompt complex reactions beyond the simple fight-or-flight response--the primordial motivator that sends your heart racing and pumps up your blood pressure. In particular, stress triggers a variety of changes in the immune system--some beneficial, some decidedly less so--depending on how long the stress lasts and whether there is an end in sight. To help make sense of it all, Miller and Segerstrom divided the modern universe of stressful situations into several major categories...