Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slaughter was swift and sure. After prisoners at Serkadji, Algiers' Alcatraz, used sharpened metal bed slats to slit the throats of four guards and attempted a mass escape, government security forces--the Ninjas, as they are called--swept into the prison. When they were done with their work, at least 96 inmates, most of them Muslim militants, lay dead...
...test I apply to people who say I must go on living,'' says Sampedro. ``I ask, `Swap places with me. Would you want to?' They admit they wouldn't.'' With a beautiful smile and a sense of humor tuned by long hours of reading--his shelves hold translations of Swift, Wilde, Flaubert--Sampedro says if he cannot have his life ended in predominantly Roman Catholic Spain, one option is to be taken to the Netherlands...
...rise to power. His inaugural speech moved well beyond the harsh partisan message that brought him to power, and his first meeting with the newly circumscribed President was an elaborate exercise in conciliation and cooperation. But the House reforms that began, as he had promised, on Day One came swift and bold, and the orderly procession of the votes demonstrated the security of his hold on both the House and the nation's agenda...
...Chechen fighters resisted the onslaught, but many retreated house by house as Russian soldiers claimed block after block of territory. Members of President Dzhokhar Dudayev's government reportedly joined the stream of refugees, though successive Russian air raids failed to dislodge rebels from the surrounding Caucasian mountains. Even a swift victory may be too little, too late to rally international opinion to Russian President Boris Yeltsin's defense: TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says Clinton Administration officials have actually been grumbling to Yeltsin about the sloppy military effort "for some time," to little effect because of an uncertain chain...
Recently defeated Democratic Congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas was tapped by President Clinton to become his new Secretary of Agriculture. With the support of incoming Senate majority leader and fellow Kansan Bob Dole, Glickman is expected to win swift confirmation. His prize: heading a department that faces < major cutbacks and reorganization in the months ahead. The previous Secretary, Mike Espy, left under the cloud of an independent counsel's ethics investigation...