Word: quicked
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Andropov's performance to date has demonstrated that the West may be dealing with a new type of Soviet leader?a poker player who handles his cards with subtlety and prestidigitation. He has been remarkably quick and shrewd in taking advantage of openings that circumstance, allied anxieties and American missteps have given him. Brezhnev was in office for a number of years before he had the confidence and the backing within the collective leadership to assume a forceful, prominent role in foreign policy. In the European nuclear debate, Brezhnev attempted a number of personal, high-visibility ploys to head...
...same happy consensus does not exist on the political front. The Labor Party's left wing was quick to condemn the 106-page report, particularly in light of a recently published book, Battle for the Falklands, by two journalists who fault successive Cabinets, British intelligence and Thatcher. In a brief preview of this week's full debate on the report, cries of "Whitewash!" were heard when Prime Minister Thatcher read the Franks report's exculpation of her government. Said she: "We now have no option but Fortress Falklands." Former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan charged that Thatcher...
...though, a rule on Harvard's own books restricted certain funds from being given to students who had been arrested. After the occupation of Paine Hall, when several of the students arrested proved indeed to be on the restricted type of financial aid. Harvard's decision was quick and unambiguous: According to then-aid director Seamus P. Malin '62, the aid office found a discretionary fund to replace the lost funds, used it, and subsequently saw to it that the rule was removed from the books...
...European capitals as evidence that Reagan either was not serious about arms reduction or, almost as worrisome, had no idea how to respond to the Kremlin peace offensive. "The Administration has played right into Andropov's hands," said a French foreign affairs specialist. Indeed, the Soviets were quick to capitalize on their propaganda windfall. Rostow's dismissal, reported TASS, the official Soviet news agency, "can be viewed abroad as another evidence of utter confusion in the Reagan Administration's approach to the question of restricting the arms race...
Medved's people are fiercely assertive about their individualities. Yet, surprisingly, many hold the layman's stereotypes about the medical profession: surgeons are coldhearted, cardiologists are technophiles, psychiatrists are intellectuals, and young nurses are lusty. They are also quick to see their own worst traits in colleagues: selfishness, excessive competitiveness and arrogance. This is particularly true when the doctors were formerly husband and wife...