Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BACK IN the late Sixties, Terry Dolan was a youth campaign organizer for a boisterous Connecticut assemblyman named Lowell P. Weicker. "Those were the conservative Weicker days," Dolan is quick to point out. As executive director of the nation's best known right-wing political action committee, he can no longer afford to be associated with Weicker--now considered one of the few moderate-to-liberal Republicans in the Senate. In fact, Dolan is doing everything he can to hasten Weicker's demise on Capitol Hill...
...writing often is a kind of dream-work that can distill a sketch of a person or place down to a few quick words and turn it inward, making it a charged mental impression. It can be nightmarishly surreal...
According to officials, there were three other fires at the Hilton in addition to the one that Cline admits having started. After the main fire was under control, others broke out in quick succession in a second-floor linen closet, a third-floor service elevator lobby and in a ninth-floor fire hose, which had been cut open, stuffed with paper and ignited. Cline has been charged with setting only the eighth-floor fire but is being quizzed about the others...
...expected to fall from a positive 1.5% last year to minus 1.5% in 1981. The unemployment rate, 4.8% last year, may reach 6% or more, and inflation is expected to rise from 5.5% to 7%. West Germany's national debt is currently $232 billion. Nor are there any quick fixes on the horizon. "The Chancellor is depressed," confides an aide...
...Reagan program, he asserted, will have no quick impact on either wages or productivity. Concluded Schultze: "I think it is very dangerous to hinge so much on the ability to do this in a hurry because the prospects for disappointment are at least high, and one could really come a cropper...