Word: swiftly
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Global presence? Those are big words from a company that was so hard up two years ago its officers told its pilots to taxi out to the runways on one engine instead of two in order to save fuel. In one swift maneuver, Continental may have swerved away from a penurious future as a second-tier operator and headed back toward the front ranks of major carriers. Within hours of Ferguson's announcement, the industry was buzzing with talk of other new partners that might extend the Houston airline's reach in Asian and other markets...
During the last five minutes, Tomassoni turned to his veterans and made swift change-ups to keep the legs fresh. Practically all that could be heard from the Harvard bench was the chant: "Keep it deep...
EVERY AUGUST THE EARTH PASSES THROUGH THE orbital path of Comet Swift-Tuttle. If the comet ever happened to be there, the 10-km-wide (6-mile) chunk of ice and rock could slam into the planet, carving an enormous crater, generating tidal waves and throwing up a worldwide pall of dust that could block sunlight for months. Plants would be largely wiped out, and so would many species that ultimately depend on plants for food -- including, perhaps, the human race. Just such a disaster, many scientists believe, killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A smaller strike...
There may be some truth in this apologia. But it is also clear by this time -- very late in this knotty, curiously absorbing adaptation of Graham Swift's novel -- that Crick is speaking metaphorically too. For Mr. Crick is no Mr. Chips, and the history that most profoundly haunts him is personal...
...same place at the same time. The only visible effect of the crossed paths is the annual Perseid meteor shower, caused when lingering comet dust burns up in the earth's atmosphere. But humanity may not be so lucky for long: there is a chance that the next time Swift-Tuttle comes around, probably in the year 2126, it will fall to earth. The odds are small -- 10,000 to 1 against -- according to the International Astronomical Union's Brian Marsden. But the downside is so great that Marsden has urged his colleagues to keep careful track of Swift-Tuttle...