Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israeli standards, that response was relatively mild. Israeli officials, who in the past have been quick to show that any provocation would invite massive retaliation, said that they attacked the site because they will not tolerate the presence of any Syrian antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon, not because of the ambush. The deliberately low-key response reflected what seems to be a subtle but significant change in Israeli policy. The limited action, many Israelis felt, stemmed from the massacres in the Palestinian camps in Beirut three weeks ago when Christian Lebanese forces slaughtered at least 400 people. The evidence that some...
...attempt to achieve a quick removal of Syrian and Israeli forces from Lebanon has, to Reagan's dismay, sidetracked the Middle East peace plan he announced on Sept. 1. Admits a White House official: "Lebanon is the essential issue to get solved before we can go on with the rest of the peace process." The dilemma, as Lebanese Prime Minister Wazzan noted last week, is that Lebanon will never be truly stable and independent until there is a comprehensive settlement of the key Palestinian problem. And such a settlement, whether proposed by Reagan or anyone else, remains...
Dartmouth supporters are quick to note that their team dropped decisions to three very tough non-conference opponents and that going 1-3 at the beginning of last season (0-3 non-conference) didn't stop Dartmouth from sharing the 1981 League title with Yale...
While many scientists were reluctant to comment on Leder's unpublished findings, expressed optimism, but were quick to place the discoveries in perspective...
...President stuck to his Reaganomics. He said his economic program battling inflation, interest rates, the growth in government spending and taxation was a necessary piclude to bringing down unemployment, despite pressure to apply a "quick fix" to case temporality joblessness...