Word: promptness
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...revolution in 1979. For another, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is probably in on the open secret about economic sanctions: they don't really work. Attempts to economically isolate troublemaking nations are the leech treatments of international diplomacy: traditional cure-alls that, though well-intentioned, rarely force regime change or prompt significant policy shifts, particularly when done unilaterally - and often a greater hardship for the citizens living under these regimes than for the leaders. (Read TIME's interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
...will be. As Todd Stern, the U.S.'s top climate diplomat, told reporters on Tuesday: "It all depends on what the numbers will be." But from the outside, it looks like China is forging ahead while the U.S. remains mired in domestic politics. "The question is whether [China] will prompt Obama and the Senate into action before Copenhagen," says Annie Petsonk, international counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund...
...know—so soon” to fill vacant deanships, said Classics Department administrator Teresa Wu.After less than a year on the job, former FAS Dean of Administration and Finance Brett C. Sweet left Harvard for a top post at Vanderbilt University in late July, prompting Smith to start a national search for a replacement. Deena Giancotti, associate dean for finance, has temporarily taken over the finance-related responsibilities that typically fell under Sweet’s purview, according to Gorodentsev.Gorodentsev herself was in a state of transition. With Forst slated to leave for Goldman Sachs, she said...
...fact that what the Iran threat represents is a changed game; Israel isn't the only regional player to benefit from the perception that it wields a nuclear deterrent. The danger of a regional arms race creates a new and compelling fear - Arabs with nukes - that may prompt Israel to re-examine its assumptions. Still, having developed whatever nuclear capability it may possess precisely in order to give itself a strategic trump card free of dependence on allies, Israel will not easily surrender its ambiguous weapon...
...will kick off a marketing campaign that seeks to win over consumers. And the travel industry has been busy making sure the technology works perfectly before launch. "It's all a question of how it's presented to the consumer," Wilson says. Travel agents will be automatically given the prompt to ask for the donation as they process an order. Online, a new box will show up in the shopping cart just before customers are asked for their credit-card details...