Word: swiftly
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...Iraqi air-defense battery near the city of Mosul fired two surface-to-air missiles at a pair of U.S. jets patrolling the U.N.-imposed "no-fly zone" over northern Iraq. Though the attackers missed their targets, the U.S. response was swift and unusually aggressive. After fighter-bombers dropped cluster bombs on the antiaircraft site, laser-guided bombs were directed at it by another pair of U.S. planes...
That is when the earth will be passing close to the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle, which reappeared last year for the first time since 1862, swooped around the sun on Dec. 12 and headed back toward the outer solar system. Like all other comets, Swift-Tuttle sheds debris consisting largely of conglomerations of ice and dust, most of it boiled from the comet when it is in the vicinity of the sun. This material remains in orbit and gradually disperses along the comet's entire path, in effect forming a giant debris- laden tube in space. Each August...
...always win (hence the fantasy quality of Isaacs' fiction). Accents from Queens and Brooklyn may flavor their speech, but they are aristocrats to their wisecracking bones, and woe to the Richies, those slobs, who can't appreciate them. Because, in her fictional universe, Isaacs plays God, her vengeance is swift and funny, and her heroines live happily ever after...
Reaction to the aliens act has been swift and shrill. In the northeast border region around Narva, where ethnic Russians constitute 95% of the population, local Russians plan to hold a plebiscite this week on the question of regional autonomy -- a move the Estonians have denounced as "unconstitutional." Western governments have voiced concern about growing discrimination against minorities. But the harshest rebuke has come from Moscow, where Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev denounced the law as "quiet apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing in white gloves...
...bigger-than-yours competition is among pizza makers. Domino's claims the largest entry with its Dominator -- a 30-in.-long, 2.08-sq.-ft., 30-slice slab of dough, cheese and toppings. It's the first Domino's pizza that won't be delivered by the company's swift red-and-blue- uniformed workers; customers will have to cart the monster home themselves. Fighting it out for second place are Little Caesar's Big! Big! Cheese and Pizza Hut's Bigfoot, both roughly 2 sq. ft. Says Rob Doughty, a Pizza Hut vice president for marketing: "Consumers were giving...