Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faces increasing competition, products are becoming more commodity-like and prices are falling. Now, HP's gray boxes, in part because of Fiorina's gender, will have just a little bit more cachet than the other guys' gray boxes. That in turn could, in the hypercompetitive world of technology, prompt more firms to tap women for top jobs. And even Fiorina might find that noteworthy...
...first--embezzlement, low-level corruption--before moving on: organized crime and racketeering, and eventually the street-crime trial division. He was an assiduous worker. "He was different, obviously--he lived in a different world that we didn't understand," Cherkasky says. "But his ability to be upbeat and prompt, to never ask for anything special or expect it, was a commentary on who he was and how he was raised." He argued six trials, and won convictions...
...power to her. Her bravado may even have a salutary effect. Perhaps the booters' out-front sexuality will prompt all their come-lately fans--girls and boys both--to reconsider what constitutes healthy, full-bodied femininity. Fit as fiddles, Chastain is 5 ft. 7 in. and 130 lbs., Scurry is 5 ft. 8 in. and 145 lbs., Foudy is 5 ft. 6 in. and 130 lbs., Akers is 5 ft. 10 in. and 150 lbs. There's no heroin chic in Babe City. Those, little Suzie, are role-model physiques...
Doctors have known for a while that a more severe condition, aortic valve stenosis, can cause problems because it prevents the valve from closing properly. ?But sclerosis was thought to be benign because it does not impede the closing of the valve,? says Gorman. The new findings will now prompt further study to determine more precisely why there appears to be an association between sclerosis and heart disease fatalities. It will also prompt doctors to monitor patients with the condition more closely. The new findings, if borne out by further research, could add a potent new tool in the battle...
...trying to make sure that bureaucrats keep out of their business. The carriers, under a heavy congressional squeeze to address increasing customer complaints, on Thursday announced their long-awaited "passenger bill of rights." Among the measures: informing customers of the lowest available fares, better notification of delays and cancellations, prompt ticket refunds and better service. Congressional critics were encouraged but refused to give the airlines the all clear. "Legislators remain ready to move if this is not enough," says TIME business reporter Julie Rawe...