Word: promptly
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...delicate position as it tries to bolster Gorbachev's standing at the very moment when the Soviet President seems to be retreating from democratic reform. "I want perestroika to succeed," Bush declared flatly. But Shevardnadze acknowledged a "certain instability" in Soviet society, igniting fears that a bad winter could prompt a retreat to more authoritarian tactics. Gorbachev recently appointed hard-liner Boris Pugo as Interior Minister and enlisted the KGB to crack down on black marketeers, whom some in the West view as the Soviet Union's fledgling entrepreneurs...
...produce an economic miracle, and that's exactly what the people expect," says Stanislaw Stomma, a member of the Polish Senate. "Tadeusz got used up, and now it's Walesa's turn." Some fear that the difficulty of delivering on people's hopes for economic revival will eventually prompt Walesa to abuse the undefined presidential powers in the new constitution, which is still being drafted. During the campaign Walesa hinted he would rule by decree if necessary. For one of his campaign posters he used a photograph of himself closely modeled after a famous picture of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski...
These exhortations might prompt outsiders to ask, like the Meryl Streep character in Postcards from the Edge, "Do you always talk in bumper stickers?" But expressions like "one day at a time" and "higher power" are the not-so-secret passwords of our times...
While throngs of Elis stormed the field in the waning moments the Crimson-dominated crowd was forced to take solace in Harvard's recent victories in Bright Center, the Department of Education and U.S. News & World Report. Other than the prompt arrest of a host of delirious New Havenites in various stages of undress, there wasn't much for Harvard (5-5 overall, 3-4 Ivy) to cheer about today...
When he was told of the water complaints, Bill Flanagan, utilities manager of Facilities Maintenence, said he would launch a prompt investigation of the matter...