Word: prompts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Peter Bommarito, who will be negotiating several important contracts later this year, told colleagues in Florida that he plans to shoot for a 10% pay raise in the first year of each new pact. An implied tie between wage increases and the cost of living would almost surely prompt union negotiators to press for extra-high wage boosts, since the Government's consumer price index has lately taken some big jumps. In January it rose by a distressing .5% almost entirely because retail food prices took their wildest leap on record-an increase of 2.3% in a single...
According to its manufacturers, methaqualone is a dependable and effective sleeping pill. Blurbs in the standard Physicians' Desk Reference attest to its "sedative and hypnotic" effects and its ability to induce prompt sleep, but warn that the drug may also produce dependency. The warning is appropriate. Though the drug may be safe if it is taken as prescribed by a physician, increasing numbers of Americans-especially on campuses and in ghettos-are obtaining the drug illegally and taking it indiscriminately. Methaqualone is rapidly becoming one of the most popular -and dangerous-drugs of abuse in the U.S. The Government...
...nurses and healthcare personnel to stand fast in refusing to provide abortion on request." A Virginia group of Catholic laymen urged a "symbolic gesture": excommunication of William Brennan, the court's only Catholic and part of the majority. Naturally, the decision brought cheers from pro-abortionists-and equally prompt action. One shut-down abortion clinic in Detroit had equipment flown in right after the court acted and performed 20 abortions by the next evening. By week's end three more private clinics had opened in the Detroit area. The feminist Women's Health Center in Los Angeles...
Certainly, deference to The Advocate was one reason for the decision to become a weekly, but an eagerness to get into the middle of the journalistic fray, join in the press war which was developing at Harvard, must have helped prompt the decision. The editors of The Crimson had stood by for three years while not one but two dailies had been founded. The Harvard Echo in December of 1879 and The Harvard Daily Herald in January of 1892. While the adventurous and talented Herald moved in for the kill on the more stolid and less interesting Echo, The Crimson...
...London British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home attacked Amin's latest moves as "contemptuous by any standards of civilized behavior" and "incompatible with the behavior expected within the Commonwealth partnership." He demanded guarantees of "prompt, adequate and effective compensation" for all British property affected and implied that Britain would take whatever legal action it could against Amin's government. In an interview he was asked why the British government did not retaliate by attaching Uganda's sterling reserves in London. "Because they haven't any," he replied...