41.  Now Japan has promised prompt action, and has earmarked money to do the job.

42.  One reason the effects were so short-lived then was prompt action in the U.S. by the Federal Reserve.

43.  Prompt action is required, because the U.S. Mint is working around the clock to inflict more pennies on America.

44.  Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr., a Republican from Fort Lauderdale who chairs the Social Security subcommittee, said the report emphasizes the need for prompt action.

45.  That means prompt action to clean up campaign financing and to outlaw the free meals, vacations and other gifts that lawmakers get from lobbyists.

46.  The artificial linkage between drugs and smoking is meant to create a state of suspended animation until the elections this fall relieve the pressure for prompt substantive action.

47.  The two railroads had sued the STB in federal court, arguing that the moratorium violated federal laws requiring prompt action on mergers.

48.  They and a bipartisan group of legislators are now pushing for prompt action on improving the current system of campaign financing, which heavily favors incumbents.

49.  They would summon those college deans to a conference and make them either defend their neglect of history or promise prompt remedial action, with front-page punishment or reward.