Word: prompts
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According to an introductory note that accompanied the survey, the evaluation was intended to jumpstart a discussion about "the role of proctors: what is working, what is not," and to "prompt the FDO to have [proctors] officially evaluate [their] experience in future years...
...been the Democrats' favorite co-sponsor on everything from a patient's bill of rights to gun control. TED KENNEDY and JOHN EDWARDS like him so much that they have been urging the maverick to switch sides. Though McCain has declined, he thought about it long enough to prompt a dinner invitation from the President last week. The shift in power only enhances his stature. "This move makes John McCain the de facto Republican leader in the Senate," says a top Republican operative...
...intent was not to "annihilate their Pacific Fleet with a single attack," as he declares in the movie. His more subtle aim was to discourage America from interfering in Japanese affairs by showing the Yanks that Japan was a force. He hoped a quick victory in Hawaii would prompt the U.S. to petition for peace in the Pacific, which would allow expansionist Japan, already on the move in China, to pursue oil and other supplies in Sumatra, Borneo and Java. Japan felt it was under a tight deadline for invading those places. When it leapt, it did not want America...
...question is now whether the Ashcroft Justice Department would try to take the case to the Supreme Court or simply let it drop. Also at issue is whether Ashcroft's letter, which was read aloud by an NRA official at the group's convention in Kansas City, will prompt gun-rights groups to begin an onslaught of lawsuits challenging restrictions on firearms ownership...
...missile shield would almost certainly prompt Beijing to accelerate efforts to expand and modernize its own nuclear fleet, in order to retain some measure of nuclear deterrent against Washington. But those efforts are already underway, because China?s missile fleet's questionable capability and vulnerability to preemptive strike severely diminished its deterrent value. To overcome these limitations, China has been working on a ten-fold expansion of its current nuclear arsenal with mobile-launched, solid-fueled, multiple-warhead missiles. So Beijing?s response is more likely to be felt in the political and diplomatic arena, where it will react...