Done immediately, at once and without delay. 1. To make somebody decide to do something. 2. 3. To provide actors during a performance with words or lines they have forgotten. 4. To suggest something that somebody ought to say, or give a reminder to a speaker. 1. A reminder to a performer of the words or lines he or she has forgotten.
Ninety-nine days later, after one of the most daring journeys in American history, John Wesley Powell emerged from the Grand Canyon to become a contemporary American hero. In the following years Powell led several geological and ethnological explorations in Arizona and Utah under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution.
Powell announced his resignation as Secretary of State on November 15, 2004. According to The Washington Post, he had been asked to resign by the president's chief of staff, Andrew Card. Powell announced that he would stay on until the end of Bush's first term or until his replacement's confirmation by Congress.