Word: promptness
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...addition to concerns about their role in the process, Riverside residents have criticized Harvard for what they describe as unfair tactics during the negotiations. They say the University was not prompt in its responses to neighbors’ requests, delaying the process at the end and leaving the residents without enough time to study the agreement carefully before they had to make a decision...
...slightly baffling defense, the White House persistently insisted that Karen Ryan really was a freelance reporter and not, despite all indications, an actress. Unfortunately for Karen and her budding press career—and for the White House and its rapidly diminishing credibility—a prompt investigation by the Columbia Journalism Review quickly proved otherwise. More predictably, Administration officials insisted that all the fuss was for nothing: the videos were simply objective and informative pieces, meant to help educate Americans about the changes in Medicare and how they could best take advantage of their new prescription drug benefits...
...what can we do to take back our inboxes? On the technical side of things, Harvard has given us access to some of the best (though still imperfect) spam filtering tools—you can enable the ominously named SpamAssassin for your inbox by typing blockmail at the fas% prompt instead of pine (or, for those of you with no idea what I’m talking about, by going to http://www.fas.harvard.edu/computing/myaccount/). These tools learn from the spam they receive, so they’re always improving as they play a never-ending tit-for-tat with...
While the Harvard community has certainly enjoyed the benefits of your recent web creations—such as facemash.com, thefacebook.com, crimsonhookups.com and, most recently, crimsonrumormill.com—your programming skills haven’t been as prompt lately as some of the Crimson faithful may have desired them...
...which facilitate cutting around trees and flower beds, have proved especially popular, and dealers report brisk sales of $3,000-plus premium models. That's good news for retailers and manufacturers, given that profit margins on pricier models tend to be higher than on budget versions. Those trends helped prompt Kubota, a Japanese brand, to launch its first gas-engine residential mower this season with zero-turn steering. Starting price...