A state legislator, Shirley Turner, proposed a bill requiring that workers hired under state contracts be American citizens or legal aliens, or fill a specialty niche Americans could not, prompting at least four other states to consider similar bills.
If an attack on one of their own colleagues couldn't prompt a serious conversation, what could?
The surge in foreclosures underpins the recent failure of major financial institutions, including Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, which held billions of dollars in securities backed by mortgages that borrowers could not pay, prompting the Bush administration's $700 billion bailout plan.
They also could not, when prompted, describe their ethical decision-making methods" (Clarkeburn et al., 2000, p. 70).
Their answers could thus have been affected by desirability bias, although fieldworkers were trained to ensure that they did not prompt respondents for answers.
This so-called "evergreening" effect could not only prompt anticompetitive practices, but also discourage innovation by permanently obstructing access to new technologies or by charging large sums of money for access to their patents, thus making overall production processes even more costly and inefficient (Stiglitz 2006, Ch. 4).
In CHC, the current phone-call based appointment system was often congested and could not provide prompt services to patients.
The official could not say what prompted the stop.
The article also referred incorrectly to studios' tendency to aim for PG-13 rather than R. It could not have been prompted by the success of "Jaws" in 1975, since PG-13 was not created until 1984.
However, Perryman could not say what prompted the warrant.
