Word: swiftly
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...swift military victory in the Six-Day War of 1967 evoked unruly territorial appetites and an obsession with holy sites. The Old Man, well into his 80s, raised his voice for the last time. Keep Jerusalem undivided, he said, but otherwise we must suppress our yearnings for the newly gained regions; we must relinquish them in return for peace. The October War of 1973 came as a nemesis, a harsh slap of reality, undoing the post-1967 Israeli arrogance and moral callousness. Ben-Gurion died a few weeks after that war, while a wounded, deflated Israel was mourning its heavy...
...talents of the oboe, clarinet, flute and bassoon players did receive the spotlight in most of the theme's airy permutations, the constant alteration of the string players' style-from pizzicato to spiccato to longer, lyrical bowstrokes--carried the listener through the eight variations and finale, all executed with swift precision under Silverstein's direction...
...Jobs will go; tears will flow. But that doesn't mean Dunlap's makeover is a farce. He has an ambitious growth strategy, which he appears determined to stick around to oversee. That's new stuff for Dunlap, 60, a churn-around pro who in the past has followed swift cost cuts with the well-timed sale of his company. The formula worked wonders for shareholders in 1994-95 at Scott Paper, where he cut the head count 35%. The stock tripled. The script was being rewritten at Sunbeam, where the stock has quadrupled...
Once a U.S.-led attack starts--if the situation should get that far--Wall Street is counting on a swift allied victory that would destroy Saddam's "germ factories" and perhaps even take out the tyrant himself. The generals on Wall Street are so certain of the outcome that in their minds they've already won the war and held the ticker-tape parade. And that's just the point. "There is a lot of room for disappointment," notes Tom McManus, a market strategist in Katonah, N.Y. "People have forgotten how easily things can go wrong." What...
DIED. ROBERT A. HOUGHTON, 84, dogged former Los Angeles assistant police chief who led swift and successful investigations into two of the city's most notorious crimes, the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the Manson family murders; in Los Angeles...