Word: prompts
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...crew told me it was like driving Dad's car. You learn the basics after a week. After three months, a sailor should be proficient enough so the diving officer doesn't constantly have to prompt. Dad's car, however, didn't weigh 17,000 tons. The sub responded sluggishly when I moved the wheel. I also had to steer three-dimensionally. The wheel not only turned left and right, but to point the boat down or up, I had to push the wheel in or pull it to my chest. What's more, the sub has two steering wheels...
Final clubs remain quiet about almost everything that goes on behind their locked wooden doors and high brick walls. Members refuse to go on the record or state their club names, fearing that exposure of underage drinking could prompt a club shut-down...
...battling to wipe out. They feel that they alone should not have to pick up the tab for Africa. They want to stanch drug pirates who might make worthless fakes or flood drugs onto the black market. And they fear that making AIDS therapies cheaper for Africans will prompt lucrative Western markets to demand lower prices as well...
DeGreeff says the proctor's trust must have been seriously violated in order to prompt such a reaction...
...develop a coherent message on the issue. Washington's allies in NATO are opposed to the U.S. building even a limited missile shield aimed at the hypothetical missile capabilities of "rogue" states, out of concern that such a move would violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty and prompt Russia and China to update and expand their own missile capability to compensate for their perceived strategic disadvantage if a missile shield is built...