Word: prompts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost 60,000 American men will develop cancer of the prostate this year, and more than 20.000 will die of the disease. At least half of those deaths might have been avoided had the cancer been diagnosed sooner. In its earliest stages, it can usually be arrested by prompt and aggressive surgery or radiation, or both. The catch is that early detection has so far proved difficult, not only because men too often avoid rectal examination by the physician's gloved finger, but because available blood tests turn up evidence of malignancy in only more advanced cases...
What can be done? The OECD recommends prompt efforts by West Germany and Japan, two "locomotive" economies, to speed up growth. Since Japan is already trying to stimulate its economy, the obvious target of the OECD appeal is West Germany, which has consistently rejected expansionist economic policies. At the same time, West Germany has built up a giant $16.7 billion trade surplus that has left the deutsche mark vulnerable to revaluation on the world's money markets. Indeed, because of the recent slide of the dollar, the increased value of the mark is beginning to crimp the country...
...plus $5,000 for every day the violations continued. That was not really much of a threat; such fines are subject to so many court appeals that they cannot be collected for a long time, if ever. Violation of an injunction, however, would cut the red tape and bring prompt fines and possibly even jail sentences for executives...
...effort to prompt more buying from up-market British customers, Marks & Spencer is now using its Kensington store as a kind of laboratory to see which new fashions and higher-priced goods will sell. In its first five days of business, this store-which to shoppers looks little different from other modernized branches in the chain-is said to have had sales close to $1 million. M & S is looking for a formula that will appeal as much to dowagers and duchesses as to the present line of customers. Legions of faithful shoppers will be praying to St. Michael...
...Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions, said yesterday that although the tuition credits are not very substantial, they will aid an income group of great concern to Harvard admissions, the middle class. However, the tax credits will not prompt an increase in the amount of applications from middle-class students, Jewett said...