Word: swifter
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...resort of Sipadan. Over the following four months, they auctioned them off for a whispered total of up to $25 million in ransom money. Bad enough that it happened again: even more frightening, it was clear from day one of the most recent crisis that the resolution would be swifter and a lot more brutal. Over the past year, the rebels spent their ill-gotten riches on firepower: M-16s, Uzis, mortars, cannons, jeeps and the 50-seat speedboat which, with three monstrous 750- horsepower outboards, could outrun anything in the Philippine navy. The faction of Abu Sayyaf (literally "Bearer...
...from North Carolina State has found hundreds of flaws in more than a dozen texts. Hydrogen appears twice on a periodic table and is described as a nonmetal and an alkali metal. In another book, sound travels faster through warm air on page 422; 12 pages later, it's swifter in cold. Above left, east and west are flipped on a compass ; center, the equator runs through the U.S.; in a prism setup, right, the result shown is impossible. Confused? So are your kids...
...morality as strategic self-interest. "Our national interest should be defined in terms of our values," he says. Gore and his running mate, Joseph Lieberman, have long been among the country's most hawkish Democrats. Both defied their party to support the Gulf War, and both lobbied Clinton for swifter intervention to stop ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo. Gore's doctrine of "forward engagement" extends beyond problems that bend to military action. He identifies social maladies around the world, from AIDS in Africa to poor prenatal care in developing nations, as potential security threats that require American engagement...
...Games will never be the same. Sydney has changed things, perhaps forever. Gone is the notion that the Games are supposed to be a serious affair. To the motto "Swifter, Higher, Stronger," Sydney has added "Not Quite So Solemn...
...handling of the Microsoft case will inevitably have to be passed on to a new administration--a fact that may jeopardize the progress made in the case thus far. Under new leadership, the Justice Department could potentially sacrifice the government's strategic bargaining advantage in the name of a swifter, if more lenient, settlement with Microsoft, or even go so far as to drop out of the case entirely. Although the states that are parties to the suit would likely continue to fight, such actions would greatly reduce the monetary resources and manpower available to the prosecution. The new administration...