Word: prompts
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...networking software that allowed users to share files and printers; in Orem, Utah. Noorda coined the term "coopetition"-companies making products that work together. But he famously engaged in a long, ultimately fruitless battle with Microsoft-which in the 1990s devoured much of Novell's market share-that helped prompt his retirement...
...voice of a generation speaks but nobody’s around to hear it, does it still make a sound? This is the kind of question that might provoke a grimace from filmmaker Andrew J. Bujalski ’98; indeed, this prompt is exactly the sort of empty cliché his films refuse to embrace. Further, the “voice of a generation” is a label Bujalski refuses to accept: “Go out and poll my generation and see how many of them feel like I embody their voice,” he says...
...prompt, I thought at the time. Though his note struck me as a bit peculiar, I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps it was his way of being sweet...
...than a curt letter that fails to provide important details.We hope that the University will respect the intentions of those donors who contributed prior to the new policy’s implementation by exempting those funds from the duty. And we urge the University to offer student groups a prompt explanation for the new tax. Only then can students determine whether the tax is justified; without an explanation, it’s just not fair...
Democrats, of course, agree. The G.O.P. has scourged the opposition as the party of cut and run, but that tack is of limited value when the Democratic leadership has reined in calls by members for a prompt withdrawal from Iraq and when most Americans no longer support the war. In any case, the Democrats are now playing offense on Iraq. The home page of Diane Farrell, a Democrat seeking to unseat Representative Christopher Shays in Connecticut, features a calculator for the cost of the war in Iraq that updates second by second--$313 billion and counting. In a crucial seat...