Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constructive use of investment. Using investment as a means toward social and political progress may not bring about an overnight solution, but divestment leaves us with no influence at all. Instead, it robs Blacks of jobs and isolates us from the debate inside South Africa. Divesititure is a quick-fix panacea that would leave us atop the most impregnable ivory tower of all--that of self-righteousness. All we could do is yell at the South African government from our dizzying moral heights supposedly content with the knowledge that we had cleansed ourselves of the entire affair...
...make sure that the process moves quickly each group should be required to enter their choice at a set time. If one group were housed every five minutes, nearly 100 groups could be processed in an eight hour day. Groups that missed their time slot would forfeit their number and move to the end of the line. Since only one member of each rooming group need file the rooming choice, and since the process itself would be quick, the whole affair could be finished in a few days. No fuss, no mess, no worry--and no more blind choices, frantic...
...President Reagan is clearly one to go for the quick fix," said James H. Vanderpool '89, one of the predominantly freshmen participants in the discussion in the Freshman Union's private dining room. He said he didn't think Reagan had exhausted nonmilitary options, such as economic sanctions, before deciding to attack the military bases...
...Black and White made quick work of Williams, scoring all 22 of its points in the first half. "We concentrated on tightening up our play," Co-Captain Gillian Caldwell said, "instead of trying to score...
Some plans have been drawn in impressive detail. One involves three waves of carrier-based planes that would strike in quick succession under cover of predawn darkness. First, fighter planes would launch missiles that home in on radar to knock out once again the radars at the SA-5 missile sites at Surt and Benghazi. Then, attack planes would wing in low and fast to knock out the missiles and their launchers. Once they had been destroyed, the third wave would hit adjacent airfields, destroying the runways so that Gaddafi's 550 combat aircraft could not scramble to counterattack...