Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Johnson's editorial, Ring says, helped prompt acompany-wide meeting held in early January todiscuss the issues of women in the cast and thecontent of the script...
...typed ucvote at the fas prompt. I read your high school resumes. I tried to find merit in your campaign platforms of better fro-yo and graduated meal plans. And I did my best to ignore the sea of people around me talking about what an ineffective body the council was. You started out tabula rasa in my mind, but you tarnished your image. And you did it fast...
...seemed like the murder of Matthew Shepard might have been enough. It seemed like the sight of a young man strung up on a fence post by vicious killers simply because he was gay might have been enough to prompt the state legislature in Wyoming to enact hate-crimes legislation. In the wake of the killing, in the wake of the national outcry that followed, it seemed like the obvious fact--that violence motivated by racial, ethnic or sexual bias warrants extra punishment--was on the verge of acceptance...
AMMAN: Nothing like a funeral to prompt some healing of family feuds. Syria's President Hafez Assad's surprise arrival at Monday's burial of King Hussein may signal a renewed willingness to pursue regional peace efforts, which broke down following the slaying of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. "Assad knew that people would be reading the signals at Hussein's funeral," says TIME Middle East correspondent Scott MacLeod. "Showing up at an event attended by Israeli leaders and President Clinton suggests he wants to get back into some sort of peace process...
There's something wonderfully reliable about the people who write letters to the editor. At the receiving end of the missives, both paper and electronic, we begin the week by placing bets on what articles will prompt a big response and how the battle lines will be drawn. (Hey, we take our fun where we find...