Word: prompts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...special election to fill the seat. And as far-fetched as it sounds, many pundits say the possibility of an indictment was one of the reasons some people voted for the incumbent. As in this year's mayoral race, antipathy to the challenger was strong enough to prompt conservatives who would normally oppose Jefferson to vote for him, with the idea that it would be harder to dislodge Carter if she were elected, or to stay home, which played into Jefferson's hands. With Jefferson out in a year or so, they figured, it would be easier to replace...
...Good crisis management consists of five basic tenets, Bernstein says. The company's response should be prompt, compassionate, honest, audience-appropriate and interactive. "The information a company releases to stakeholders like investors and employees may be different than the information released to the public," Bernstein says. The information, he adds, "needs to be released in an interactive way so that all of your stakeholders have a means to ask questions and receive answers, such as on a web site...
...same moment, hitting the night chill, the light snow drifting counterclockwise through the lamps in front of Sanders, and that he would first laugh to see the fresh ecstasy of Linus—tiny clustered prints in the white—and then recognize her, Oh!, which would prompt one or the other to start the to-and-fro of pleasantries that might very well lead to mention of coffee, no, strike that, a drink nearby, but she’ll be damned if that half-somnolent insect didn’t provoke the hand that in a few flip...
...then searches its database to see if a name matches. A miniprojector on the stem flashes the name of the friend or relative encountered on the glass lens for one two-hundredth of a second--so fast it isn't noticeable, yet lab tests have shown the subliminal prompt is enough to improve name recall by 50%. In the prototype, wearers must carry a battery wired to the glasses, but eventually a wireless system will be available...
...said Tuesday night. “It’s worrisome, but I’ll probably forget about this after tonight.” Tofler, the former lecturer who is now professor of preventive cardiology at University of Sydney in Australia, hoped his study would prompt people to reexamine their current activities—in some cases, cocaine use. “That would be something that I think people would look at and say, ‘Well, there’s another reason to avoid that,’” Tofler said...