Word: promptness
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...good point, but one not likely to prompt much soul searching among dermatologic surgeons or the aging baby boomers flocking to their offices. Asked what she was willing to do to stay looking young, one fiftysomething woman in Narins' waiting room promptly replied, "Whatever it takes--as long as it doesn't injure my health...
...they came across had few or no corpses inside. Iraqi soldiers learned not to sleep near their vehicles and to construe any sign of a U.S. air raid--the appearance overhead of a drone, the sound of a plane or the sudden explosion of a nearby tank--as a prompt to take cover. In Mahmudiyah, for instance, the commander of a 150-man Republican Guard unit ordered his troops to leave their tanks in the market and prepare to confront U.S. forces on foot. "The commander--he'd be dead if he'd stayed in those tanks," says Hadi Abid...
...part of the picture. To outwit the Agents and Sentinels, you will have to brush up on your driving skills, Grand Theft Auto--style. You might also want to learn to hack. At one point in the game, you're faced with a green computer screen, a blinking DOS prompt and no instructions on how to proceed. Perry says he wants players to be staring slack-jawed at the screen--just as Neo was when he received his "knock, knock" message from Trinity in the original movie...
...months-long flirtation between Riegel’s character and Maggie was enough to prompt the creation of a fan group called BAM (“Bianca and Maggie”), which attempted to convince the soap to push the relationship toward intimacy...
These bacterial molecules prompt the cells to release a protein called interferon, which alerts the immune system to possible microbial invaders. A precursor of these molecules is found...