Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rusher was quick to rise to Meese's defense. "It is important that Meese not be man-euvered into a 'Let-'em-eat-cake' position," he said, assuring the audience that Meese was referring to current social security woes and not the program itself...
Queen Bee, set in Chicago of the 1990's is essentially Harlequin Romance in city hall. The story traces Ann Marie O'Brien's quick rise to power in city politics, from the moment she impresses political boss Mayor Tom Cullen to her ascension to the mayoralty. She becomes a media star because of her tough, no-nonsense approach to city issues and outmaneuvers the corrupt aldermen whose interests she interferes with. Once she takes office, her television-commentator finance, Paul Michael Martin, engineers a deal with the most corrupt group of aldermen -to plead their case to his lover...
...Angeles is the land of endless freeways and fast everything. Thus it might seem fertile territory for a newspaper that is billed by its editor as "a quick read" and that seeks an audience among frequent travelers and uprooted careerists who still care about news from home. Last week the Gannett Co.'s USA Today, the nation's first general-interest national daily, launched itself in sunny Southern California, in the midst of what its editors hoped was a nonsymbolic 1.2-in. rainstorm. The paper's $500,000-plus promotional campaign began with a party for nearly...
...slated for consideration this spring, ranging from financial aid and sexual harassment to summer storage and the status of non-resident students. But so far, the council's links to University Hall have yet to be used. The problem, it seems, is that the council's desire to make quick changes conflicts with the slow, methodical pace of Harvard's decision-makers...
...geology begins on the front lawn and ends at the beach. But Harris' rigors of body and mind cannot fail to impress. She moves robustly over the landscape lugging her hammers and rock samples. She computes the hard evidence of a canyon wall or handful of dirt with quick confidence and cheerful clarity. "I see little pieces of carbon. I see green chert. I see a bug crawling through the sand...