Word: prompts
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Lopez-de-Silanes’s specialty, corporate governance, has carried him as an adviser to countries across the world, including Mexico, his home country, Russia and Egypt. According to the Wall Street Journal, he “is known as a strong advocate of prompt disclosure of financial misdeeds...
Moreover, John Paul's very public health woes may prompt the Cardinals to push his successor to impose a mechanism to avoid another pontificate slowed by illness. Ratzinger, who has sought ways to adapt church governance for modern times, might be willing to agree to an age limit and pass on the job after a few years. --By Jeff Israely
...news, was not high on their list. Yet "every time we'd have a speech and attempt to scale back the liberty section, he would get mad at us," Bartlett says. Sometimes the President would simply take his black Sharpie and write the word freedom between two paragraphs to prompt himself to go into his extended argument for America's efforts to plant the seeds of liberty in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East...
...research suggested that the rate of increase in a man's PSA level, not the absolute level itself, determines the risk of death from the disease. Should there be new standards for interpreting PSA readings? Not necessarily. While tighter guidelines would almost certainly find more cancers, they would also prompt more unnecessary biopsies and cases of overtreatment...
...Wilson, a lecturer at University College London and author of The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. "Brussels has been reluctant to give an invitation until Ukraine internalizes European values in politics and business, and Ukraine has been unwilling or unable to reform until that invitation is given." The current crisis could prompt both sides to break the impasse...