Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prices--which have soared as much as 25 cents since February, to levels as high as $2.19 per gal. in California--were provoking a chorus of angry protests from motorists and truckers. Washington, particularly sensitive to voter discontent in a presidential-election year, made a response that was uncharacteristically swift and characteristically disproportionate. Senator Bob Dole, first off the mark, proposed in a letter to President Clinton that the 1993 federal gasoline-tax increase of 4.3 cents per gal. be repealed, an action that Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested Congress could accomplish by Memorial Day. Pointedly noting that there had been...
...complexity and opacity was to obscure the way regulation and employer mandates would foist the higher costs on private business and individuals (in the form of higher insurance premiums). It took a while for that part of the story to get out. When it did, the plan died a swift death...
...sociopathic for Grant--or, with a different target, for Howard Stern or Don Imus. But WABC is owned by Capital Cities/ABC, which is owned by Disney, a company sensitive to image befoulers and potential boycotts. After the Brown joke, Jesse Jackson wrote Disney president Michael Ovitz urging Grant's swift dismissal. Ovitz replied that "we have already determined how we will handle the situation." The next day, before air time, Grant was told he was through...
...baffling indirections of court diplomacy, the knots and ravels of an intense family life. Elizabeth II, 70 this month, has reigned 44 long years, years spent largely in public. Her lifetime assignment is to be the embodiment of the monarchy, and at that she is impeccable--serene, stately, swift at reading people and situations. In short, a national symbol to be proud...
Sophomore Jenny Franzese doubled to lead off the first, followed by a walk to senior Danielle Feinberg. Senior co-captain Amy Reinhard then hit a grounder to third, but the swift Franzese avoided the tag to load the bases for Kreuder. Kreuder's double--the seventh consecutive time she had reached base safely--plated...