Word: quicked
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Western Europe will experience a slight lag as well because its manufacturers will have difficulties selling goods to struggling oil-producing countries. Even so, European countries are poised for a quick takeoff. "There should be no major downside risks for Europe, since they are not significant producers of oil," observes Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford. Europeans, who have historically paid higher gasoline prices than have Americans, cheer the oil slide as if it were a sporting event with the home team winning. OIL REACHES PREHISTORIC PRICES, exulted Spain's financial daily Cinco Dias...
...this year. In January jet fuel cost 80 cents or more per gal. Now some companies are buying it for 55 cents. Says Joseph Hopkins, a spokesman for Chicago-based United Airlines, which alone saves $20 million a year for every 1 cents fuel-price reduction: "We can take quick advantage of price breaks." Donald Burr, chairman of Newark-based People Express, now the fifth largest U.S. carrier, says that his company is getting "terrific savings." In the first quarter of 1986, People cut its fuel bill by as much as $16 million, or 30%. The oil- price plunge...
...will need to strengthen our capabilities in the areas of intelligence and quick reaction. Intelligence will be particularly important, since our societies demand that we know with reasonable clarity just what we are doing and against whom we are acting. Experience has taught us that one of the best deterrents to terrorism is the certainty that swift and sure measures will be taken against those who engage in it. "Clearly there are complicated moral issues here. But there should be no doubt of the democracies' moral right, indeed duty, to defend themselves...
...government defends its authoritarian habits by invoking the constant threat of an attack from the North. That is by no means an idle threat. In recent months, North Korea has massed the majority of its forces just across the demilitarized zone, poised for a quick strike. It built two new airfields from which its planes can reach Seoul in just eight minutes, and bought from the Soviet Union new SCUD B surface-to-surface missiles that can hit the South Korean capital. According to Chun, his country's enemies have already begun maneuvering to sabotage two big events on Seoul...
...Katz was ever interested in anything beyond the most generalized form of his human subjects. He may draw figures better than Milton Avery, but that is not saying much. The late-'50s portraits of Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Taylor and Norman Bluhm are, as portraiture, thin and perfunctory; for a quick check on what a first-rate American draftsman could do with the human face as a focus of inquisitorial attention, one could have done worse than visit West 57th Street after leaving the Whitney to catch the show of Ellsworth Kelly's portrait drawings at the Blum Helman Gallery. Perhaps...