Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadline for his execution by 48 hours, there was cautious optimism at the White House that diplomatic efforts were paying off. That mood was sorely tested on Thursday morning, when the kidnapers turned the screws further with the release of a videotape in which Cicippio read a statement urging quick action for the release of Obeid. The tape ended with Cicippio painfully bidding farewell to his wife. But just 45 minutes before he was due to be executed, Hizballah lifted its death threat indefinitely, though with the condition that it was now seeking release of further prisoners...
...L.D.P. chieftains may like Kaifu's marionette qualities, but the real test for the party will be the next elections for the lower house, which are expected within a year. The opposition parties were quick to decry Kaifu's candidacy as a sign that the L.D.P. would not reform itself along more democratic lines. The L.D.P. hopes that Kaifu, the star of his university debate team, will simply outspeak his opponents...
...Democrat Ed Jenkins, would cut capital-gains taxes to 20% on investments held at least a year. But the cut would be short-lived; in two years the rate would return to 28% with indexing for inflation. Investors would be sure to roll over their assets and produce a quick windfall for the Treasury -- at the expense of future tax collections. House Speaker Tom Foley calls it "robbing from future generations." Lawrence Summers, a Harvard public-finance expert, calls it "probably the worst tax proposal in the history of the Republic...
Last week's decision by the outgoing government to abandon rationing and other controls immediately and permit market forces to control prices had lightning impact: the cost of bread soared 100%, milk nearly 300% and some cuts of meat more than 400%. But the move brought no quick improvement in food supplies because prices and incomes had been frozen throughout July, and Poles, aware that sharp increases loomed, had cleared store shelves of most commodities...
...over, not yet. One day some fisherman with a pipe stands in the stream nearby releasing fish and announces that the trout are hitting bugs with an unpronounceable Latin name. You nod but don't know what he's talking about. Then back to the books for a quick course on streamside biology, matching the hatch, figuring out what the trout is eating and which artificial flies imitate those insects. Armed with a little entomology and inflamed with trout psychosis, you start buying everything that countless catalogs offer: stream thermometers, a flashlight for nighttime fishing, hook- sharpening files, dozens...