Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clark may share James Watt's essential view that there should be more commercial use of public lands. By their reckoning, Clark could prove an even more formidable adversary than Watt because of his low-key, nonbelligerent style and close personal ties with President Reagan. Many environmentalists were quick to point out that Clark has no real expertise in the intricacies of land-management policy and the myriad regulations that the Interior Department must observe or enforce. Complained William Turnage, executive director of the Wilderness Society: "This is the third time that President Reagan has appointed William Clark...
...night. Though the Soviets tracked KAL 007 with radar for more than two hours, it is now believed that their interceptors had trouble finding the airliner. Not until it was about to leave Soviet airspace did they finally bring it into sight, and then they had to make a quick decision. They shot...
Says one Wall Street observer: "Johnson & Johnson management were quick to cast themselves in the role of self-sacrificing servants of the people. They generated enormous public sympathy and managed to convince most Tylenol consumers that [the consumers] owed the company cooperation in saving the product." Tylenol's share of the market has climbed back to nearly 29%, despite the fact that other nonaspirin brands, including Anacin-3, Panadol and Datril, are offering stiffer competition than the company faced a year...
...really. Oh yes, and the I.O.C. would have to surrender entirely its usual control over costs. This is what eventually intrigued Ueberroth. For $ 115,000 a year, about a 70% cut in salary, he accepted the presidency of the most awesome and diverse and fast-growing and quick-dissolving company in the world. Nine months into his new stewardship, he sold First Travel for $10.1 million. As of Jan. 1, he will become an unpaid Olympic volunteer...
...Modine), a fresh-faced lad with a college education? Or Richie (Mitchell Lichtenstein), an upper-class homosexual with a taste for taunt? Or Roger (David Alan Grier), a sweet-natured black who deflects each insult with a shrug? Or Carlyle (Michael Wright), the slum-bred black spoiling for a quick apocalypse? Doesn't matter. When the crisis comes, they will be as surprised as the paratrooper whose chute just wouldn't open...