Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traffic seemed to move faster. We were approaching what could become a war zone, and the troops in the orange groves were Palestinians. We turned a corner and got a quick glimpse of Soviet-made missile launchers. They turned left and disappeared as nimbly as a shadow darting in and out. But we saw enough to know they were new and mobile, and we remembered that when the P.L.O. opened its guns the last time, aiming at the Israeli settlements across the border, they hit 37 of their targets...
Moscow has been quick to take advantage of Schmidt's problems. Last month President Leonid Brezhnev announced that the Soviet Union had frozen its deployment of SS-20s, urging NATO to reverse its 1979 decision. President Reagan refused, arguing that a freeze would preserve the Soviet advantage...
Stroh calculated that buying Schlitz would be a quick way to become third in the industry. It would also be a cheaper way to grow than building new facilities. The cost of building a new factory was between $60 and $80 per bbl. of annual productive capacity, but the Schlitz plant was only $25 per bbl. Expansion by acquisition was not new to Stroh. The company bought the F. & M. Schaefer Corp. of New York in 1981, giving it a beachhead in Eastern markets. On March 29, Stroh announced its intention of buying huge chunks of Schlitz stock, seeking...
Brown, however, came back with some firepower of its own at 22:05 as freshman Bruin Eileen Goldgeier took a pass from Melissa Halverstadt to the left of the goal and surprised everybody (especially Crimson keeper Charlotte Worsley) with a quick-stick that evened things...
With the prospects for quick payoffs fading, venture-capital firms that have been the Daddy Warbucks of the industry are tightening their purse strings. They are now slow to provide more money to companies for research. Says Brooke Byers, a partner in the San Francisco firm of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, which helped start Genentech: "It's no longer promise but products that companies are to be judged on." Some experts believe that 90% of the new firms may run out of money years before their products are ready for market...