Word: prompts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nuclear fleet comprises only about 20 single-warhead missiles, is taking the matter personally, because its own nuclear deterrent might be eliminated by even President Clinton's limited defense. Beijing has warned that if Washington goes ahead it will be forced to expand its own missile fleet, which might prompt India to do the same in response, triggering a similar response from Pakistan...
...care industry. "They deny a substantial amount of necessary care and then, to wear you down, make you play the paperwork game," says Dr. Joy Maxey, an Atlanta pediatrician and president of the Medical Association of Georgia, which has filed a suit against Aetna for violating the state's prompt-pay law. (Aetna denies the charges and says other suits are the political attacks of trial lawyers...
...seems stranger for sports to attempt to legislate sportsmanship when some already-accepted rituals are anything but sportsmanlike. Baseball's retaliatory beanball will prompt a warning and, if done repeatedly, an ejection, but it is still an established--nay, often expected--part of the game. And hockey...let's not even talk about hockey...
...event's burgeoning popularity and simultaneous anonymity within the sports world prompt an exploration of the state of ballroom dancing today. The inquiry is made especially interesting when done with an eye toward Harvard, whose athletics program is the most diverse in the nation...
...night before, aides said, but was pleased that Reno got there on her own. "Janet," he said, "I think you're right." And a few hours later in the Rose Garden, he began to prepare the nation. "I think [Elian] should be reunited," Clinton said, "and in as prompt and as orderly a way as possible...