Word: prompts
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According to some, her input could prompt the group to call on a scholarly candidate with administrative experience at a private university...
Still, the Nieman appointment causes us to wonder where Harvard places its priorities. No formal search committee was convened to evaluate the candidates. Protests over Giles' candidacy delayed the formal announcement by three weeks, but seemed to prompt little more than one extra meeting session after the decision was virtually made. And we are troubled that Harvard has made the decision to cuddle up to the Gannett media empire...
...territory under the direct control of the FARC. Taxing the traffickers in exchange for protection earns the Marxist army some $700 million a year, making it easily the wealthiest peasant guerrilla movement in history, one that is better equipped than the army it is fighting. That has prompted the U.S. to blur the distinction between counterinsurgency and the war on drugs in order to strengthen the government's forces - which many observers in the region and in the U.S. believe is a no-win proposition unless America's appetite for narcotics is diminished. But what congressional opponents...
...first of many judicial forays into the subject; judging from the small but growing number of states that permit seriously ill patients to grow and use marijuana under medical supervision (California voters took the lead in 1996) the issue isn' going away anytime soon. And this particular case could prompt the Justices to take an unfamiliar position: While this Court consistently demonstrates a penchant for decentralizing power from the federal government in favor of the individual states, federal drug laws remain sacred cows...
...effect of the bombings has been to encourage a kind of scrappy vigilantism. Local "committees" now patrol and protect apartment buildings. Suspicious people and unattended packages prompt immediate calls to the police--all in all, a state of affairs that is a far cry from the image of a well-managed democracy Putin has tried to show the West...