Word: swiftly
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...Vietnam-like quagmire (and against the private advice of senior military officers like Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell, who believes intervention should be massive or not at all), the President seems bent on adopting a feelgood strategy -- a limited action designed, above everything, to ensure a swift exit, a policy that defines success as merely having done something without regard to the ultimate result. By all accounts, Clinton aims to "level the killing fields," to borrow the words of British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. The Serbs, says the President, have benefited from the West's de facto intervention...
...marked contrast to Attorney General Janet Reno's swift admission of FBI error in last week's raid, ATF director Stephen Higgins refuses to admit to flawed judgment. Last week members of congressional investigating committees suggested either closing down the ATF's law-enforcement operations or merging the ATF, now a branch of the Treasury Department, with the Justice Department. Agency morale is devastated. Says Troy: "We have frustrated, hurt agents, involved in collective guilt. We're dealing with a highly traumatic situation...
...arrested last week and added to their list of suspects in connection with the bombing of the World Trade Center. The ease with which the agents found him suggests a criminal so careless that it was hard to imagine him pulling off such a delicate mission. And despite astonishingly swift police work, the absence of a motive left several key questions unresolved. Given the size of the bomb, why target a parking garage, where the cost to human life would be relatively small? Given the failure of any group to claim responsibility before the blast, is it possible the bomb...
...give economic and trade issues priority over foreign policy. They also view Japan and the European Community as equals in all but military terms and expect equal treatment for U.S. exports. Under the new regime, if other countries fail to honor agreements on market access, the reaction will be swift. "We don't believe it's particularly negative to take action," says Kantor. "We may have confrontations or fights, but that's natural . . . It doesn't mean you have to have a trade war. That's silly...
Although "K. House" has been viewed in past years as a haven for undergraduate athletes, residents insist that randomization is bringing a swift end to Kirkland's days as a jock house...