Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many an Israeli it came almost as a relief to learn that the Knesset bombing was not significant of renewed political strife. For one year after the Sinai campaign, Israel had cause for quiet satisfaction. The disapproval of the U.N., Israelis felt, had been lived down. But the swift efficiency of the assault had forced the Arabs to treat Israel's power with grudging new respect. It had reduced immeasurably the power and prestige of Egypt's Nasser...
CAPITALISM, often misinterpreted, often misunderstood, took on new dimensions in San Francisco last week. Recognizing the competitive challenge to free enterprise in a world clamoring for swift material progress, 551 bankers, government officials and business leaders from 62 nations gathered for the first such meeting to assess the vast needs and soaring hopes of the free world. The occasion: a week-long International Industrial Development Conference sponsored by TIME-LIFE International and Stanford Research Institute. The conference theme: Investment−Key to Industrial Development...
...successful Operation Bootstrap has sparked a productive industrial economy that in ten years has brought in 500 new industries, created 80,000 jobs, boosted per capita income from $264 to $369. Puerto Rico's Economic Development Administrator Teodoro Moscoso emphasized that the "key" to his country's swift rise was the original decision to use government funds only to create an environment in which private industry could flourish. Said he: "What is transforming Puerto Rico is not the money but the dynamic productive forces of the U.S. industrial concerns which made the investment decisions and are operating...
...forward line does, however, place an additional burden on the two fullbacks. A fast breaking team may get the jump on halfbacks playing deeper than usual to bring a four or five man rush down on the fullbacks and goalie. A premium is thus placed on accurate passing and swift control of loose balls by forwards and halfbacks...
Last year, pre-season predictions put the Cornell football team near the very top of the Ivy League. Experts saw a strong line and a swift backfield carrying the Big Red to a successful season, perhaps even to the championship...