Word: prompts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dinh province. All told, the capital district has 206,000 new refugees living in 114 temporary quarters and camps. It will probably take eight months to find adequate new housing for them all. For once, the Saigonese have given the government good marks-for its prompt aid to the refugees. There has also been a noticeable decrease in neutralism among the populace, which seems to be swinging more toward antiCommunism. The South Vietnamese army is getting an unprecedented average of 300 volunteers a day from the Saigon area...
...lead to stiffer penalties: misconduct, ten minutes on the bench; game misconduct, suspension for the balance of the game, a fine and possible league action; and the most severe sentence, the match penalty, which sends the player immediately to the dressing room, orders an automatic fine, and calls for prompt review by the league president. Finally, a penalty shot is occasionally awarded at the referee's discretion when a player throws his stick at the puck in his defending zone or commits some other flagrant act not covered by a specific penalty. Here one man from the opposing team...
...Defense Department permitted such sloth? Defense apologists contend that waste is inherent in a fortress as vast as the Pentagon, especially when it is at war. Warmakers are interested in military results first and bookkeeping second. They are satisfied as long as their contractors are good, prompt, effective suppliers--which defense contractors usually are. Another reason is bureaucratic inertia. The DOD has always conducted business like this...
Though Seoul unsuccessfully sought a commitment that the U.S. would retaliate automatically against an attack from the North, Vance partly pacified the South by renewing promises to hold prompt talks to meet such a threat...
Though the Administration could have doused the rumors then and there with a prompt, forthright denial, it grew emotional. White House Press Secretary George Christian, commenting on Presidential Candidate Eugene McCarthy's claim that demands had already been made for the deployment of nukes, declared that such speculation "is false and also unfair to the armed forces. I might add that irresponsible discussion and speculation is a disservice to the country." Rusk later repeated Christian's ill-considered insinuation that such inquiries were unpatriotic...