Word: prompts
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Even the invitations were cryptic. Printed on shocking-pink paper, they read, "Please come to Madonna and Sean Penn's birthday party Aug. 16. Please be prompt or you'll miss the wedding." Those on the select mailing list understood the reference: the bride would turn 27 on her wedding day, and the bridegroom 25 the day after. The card instructed guests to phone a special number to find out where the supersecret event would take place. Not even the chic caterers knew where to deliver their delights (pizza and curried oysters, Madonna's culinary favorites) until the very last...
...Many in the Pentagon, however, would like to put more warheads on the Midgetman and make it larger. Hence Reagan's decision to order study of a possible Mobileman missile, carrying as many as three warheads. Adding warheads, opponents protest, will make the weapons more destabilizing and could prompt the Soviets to do the same with their own new mobile missiles...
...traditions and its pride in speaking truth to big powers. Australia loses face when its leaders fail to robustly denounce human-rights abuses or to show a semblance of support for an individual such as Chen (to at least hear his story, investigate his claims, and make a prompt decision about his status: Chen first wrote to the Immigration department on May 25; he and his family remain in hiding...
...could be funny (it does prompt laughter) were it not disturbing and tragic. The procedures are not so complicated that an eighth grade Model U.N. participant wouldn’t know them. The meetings are not so often—only once a month, and lasting for 90 minutes, though in contrast to years previous Summers generally starts late—that one need struggle to look attentive through them. Sadly, it is hard to see Summers’ disregard for the customs of Faculty meeting as anything but symptomatic of the disrespect this administration has shown the professoriat...
Ganz said the findings may prompt doctors to further explore a patient’s history. “It starts to push people in a direction to suggest that perhaps, for a certain subset of women, it’s worth asking about intimate partner violence,” he said...