Word: quicked
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Throughout the NATO countries there is a widespread conviction that if the U.S. would just resume arms-control talks with the Soviets, Europe could get on with peace and prosperity again. The European press was quick to applaud Leonid Brezhnev's surprise call for a U.S.-Soviet summit at the recent Soviet Party Congress and his subsequent letters to Western political leaders expressing his interest in arms limitation. In stark contrast, President Reagan is often portrayed as a reckless warmonger intent on bombing the Soviets "back to the Stone Age," as the West German weekly Stern recently...
...goal of clear-cut superiority is distant and difficult, but they hope to make a big step in that direction by adding three battle groups to the twelve now in service round the world. A battle group consists of about seven warships, including an aircraft carrier. As a quick fix, the Reagan Administration early this month asked Congress for funds to recommission two World War II battleships now in mothballs. They would be refitted for firing cruise missiles and used as the centerpieces of new battle groups until additional aircraft carriers were available...
...Canada, with South Korea and China as components. The Japanese, too, must contribute their share to the security of this area. They have got to get away from their old policy of saying, 'We'll make the Toyotas; you provide the defense umbrella.' " Rajaratnam is quick to add, however, "The U.S. must play the leading role. No one country out here can do that itself. America must definitely not delegate regional defense to Japan and China...
Kennecott, on the other hand, was quick to accept the Sohio bid; it needs the fresh cash to modernize its machinery and protect itself from the vicissitudes of the world copper market. As for Barrow, last week's agreement calls for him to stay on as head of Kennecott and thus return to the oil business as a director of Sohio...
Couch attributes surgery-related mishaps to clearly avoidable errors by doctors who were too quick to operate, too confident of their skills and techniques, and too concerned with doing currently fashionable procedures. By contrast, Steel feels it is often impossible to assign blame for complications that occur among general medical patients, and that this is even more true for the many elderly patients with multiple ailments in the study. The complex of diagnostic tests and drugs used makes it difficult to isolate any one cause of trouble. Says Steel: "I don't really know for certain...