• The paper steers clear of compelling lone parents to work, but the government plans to prompt more to do so, despite evidence showing that the majority of lone parents prefer, for now, to continue caring for their children.

    ECONOMIST: Welfare reform

  • But the fact that there is a (remote) danger of conflict should prompt both governments to do two things.

    ECONOMIST: Japan and China

  • Mainly, they require relentless attention to detail: good products, prompt service, well-trained staff with the power to do a little extra when they judge it right to do so.

    ECONOMIST: Managing customers

  • On that occasion, China and its friends in the Third World can be expected to cavil that the failure of the United States to ratify the CTBT will prompt many nations to "go nuclear" despite their treaty obligations not to do so.

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  • For those of you that like the technical details, Mozilla has managed to do away with the UAC prompt by using a standalone system-level service.

    FORBES: Mozilla Makes Firefox Updates Less Painful

  • Why do Jack's fugitive recollections of another life prompt her to insist that "our job is not to remember"? (Sci-fi devotees will get her drift all too soon.) Why, for that matter, is she so svelte, and why is there so little sexual excitement between Victoria and Jack?

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  • Expanding disclosure would prompt insurers to incorporate climate risk into their business decisions something they must do if they are to thrive, and even to survive, the coming storms.

    FORBES: Climate-Proofing The Insurance Industry

  • These considerations prompt the Center for Security Policy to conclude that, if the budget summit is not to do real violence to the economic health and security of the Nation, the only possible outcome is to slip the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings targets for FY1991 and the outyears.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • The Center believes that the West should do nothing to help promote Gorbachev over those whose popular mandates and personal convictions prompt them to pursue aggressively systemic political and economic reform.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • But I found a different gratitude prompt: I remind myself to be grateful every time I sit down at my computer or laptop (which I do, oh, about 20-30 times a day).

    FORBES: Follow a Threshold Ritual

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