Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...epochal departure, determined by faint signals from Pioneer 10 picked up by NASA'S tracking antennas, occurred early this week when Pioneer crossed the orbit of Neptune, currently the outermost planet.* At that moment, it was 2,813,685,909 miles from the sun and moving at a brisk 30,558 m.p.h...
...movie business was not the only one making money from the picture, however. Stores selling Jedi toys, books and T shirts were also busy. "Return of the Jedi items are flying out of here," said Marian Every, manager of an F.A.O. Schwarz toy store in Washington. Pepperidge Farm reported brisk sales of Jedi cookies: chocolate for the villains, vanilla for the good guys and peanut butter for the robots and assorted fuzzy-wuzzies...
Goode, a phlegmatic campaigner, is a stylistic foil to the flamboyant Rizzo. He greets commuters at subway stops with a brisk handshake, but often does not ask for their votes. His master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and proven administrative talents reassure many white voters, but he is viewed as dull and humorless. A Goode aide was so afraid his candidate would forget to smile during a TV debate that he drew a smiling face on Goode's opening statement...
Nevertheless, there have been some stunning recent soda successes. Coca-Cola's new diet Coke, which was introduced last July, is already a brisk seller. For years, the company had feared that putting its famed name on any other product would diminish the sales and standing of the flagship brand. But to the company's surprise, nearly two-thirds of diet Coke sales are coming from new soda drinkers or from other companies' brands...
Unlike previous Churchill biographies, notably last year's brisk Young Man in a Hurry by Ted Morgan, The Last Lion is especially rich in historical and social contexts. There are no loud revisionist notes in Manchester's harmonious reorchestration of his subject's first 58 years. He is the familiar Winnie who loved soldiering, political argument, the best wines and good English. He was a frequently absent though apparently constant husband to Clementine Hozier, whom he wed in 1908. The sexual adventurers in the family were his father and, especially, his mother, American-born