Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Susskind says cynicism like Phaneus's is the biggest obstacle to the NIS' success. He says that people are too quick to assume the project cannot work and let the gams carried so far fall by the wayside. "It's going to take a lot more successes to convince people that this kind of thing can work," he says...
...Jackson did deliver a bombshell of sorts as his plane was preparing to leave Havana Wednesday afternoon for a quick flight to Managua. Jackson told reporters that Castro had agreed to free 26 Cuban political prisoners from a list of about 50 that Jackson had brought with him. Castro also told Jackson that he could pick up all 48 of the released men the next day and take them to Washington. As the plane took off, a stewardess noted a fitting coincidence. Said she: "There's a rainbow on the left side of the plane...
...Pressured by high-cost medical advances and a graying population, the $59.8 billion program, which serves some 30 million Americans, could go $97 billion in the hole as early as 1995. Said Eva Skinner, chairman of California's Legislative Coalition for Health Care Cost Containment: "Congress produced a quick fix to get us through the election...
...Lebanon. There will not be a quick withdrawal from Lebanon. We are trying to create conditions that will enable us one day to pull out our forces: by strengthening the Lebanese Army, by reaching agreements with local groups of the population. The Likud does not want to stay in Lebanon. But for the moment, the Lebanese government does not have anything to offer. It does not even control Beirut...
Kohl makes a quick switch...