from the Broadway musical Les Miserables. The unemployed church volunteer from Blackburn,Scotland, who lives alone with her cat, promptly became the unlikeliest star of the year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Shares in solar energy companies promptly plummeted worldwide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

"We concluded that health care insurance plays a huge role in determining whether or not patients are able to come to the hospital promptly enough when they have symptoms of a heart attack."

VOA: standard.2010.04.18