Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore Marianna Chilton, Harvard's number four player, was the first to record a win, defeating Majar Paumgarten in three quick games...
...person who buys or sells a stock-index future, in contrast, is making a short-term bet on which direction the overall market is going to go in the near future, usually a month or less. Thus the Chicago Merc is used primarily by brokerage firms and speculators seeking quick profits, and by money managers who want to hedge their portfolios against losses in the stock market. The rules of the two games are wildly disparate. In the stock market, the margin requirement -- the percentage of down payment that an investor must make to buy shares on credit...
Israel last week was dispensing turnstile justice, some of it compassionate, some of it harsh, most of it simply quick. After the worst Arab rioting in the country's occupied territories in nearly two decades, military authorities were determined to make speedy examples of the more than 1,000 demonstrators arrested, the vast majority of them Palestinian males between the ages of 14 and 35. The number of Arab fatalities rose to at least 22 after a 17-year-old Palestinian died of gunshot wounds sustained in one of the riots. The week brought a few fresh incidents of violence...
Israeli leaders also rejected criticism that the military, well trained in warfare, was ill prepared to handle riots and too quick to use lethal countermeasures. Rabin continued to insist that "whenever there is clear-cut danger to our troops, they have orders to use live ammunition." Army officials, however, announced that future draftees will be trained in crowd control and supplied with nonlethal riot gear, including rubber bullets, tear- gas grenades and defensive shields...
Following some of the worst rioting in its occupied territories in 20 years, the army dispenses quick justice in military courts and beefs up its patrols. -- Gulf nations meet to coordinate defense in the widening tanker war. -- Soviet and Afghan troops mount a desperate effort to save the strategic town of Khost from a rebel siege. -- Northern Ireland ends another year of sectarian strife...