Word: swiftly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While the 49-year-old Nasser's aggressive cost-cutting initiatives have made him a darling of Wall Street, the Ford family believes it is critical to have one of their own at the helm to ensure that the company pursues markets and strategies that may not yield a swift payoff but are necessary for remaining competitive long after earnings statements are released. As Bill Jr. puts it, "A Ford has the luxury of managing for the long term...
...death penalty brings vengeance and solace to the families of victims. In fact, executions must be speeded up; death row is too long." This argument holds that a central reason for conducting an execution is the shock value, the satisfyingly swift and sure justice of the chair. Society must rid its vilest elements in good part as a catharsis for those that they most directly affect. Besides, the state could save money: the long death row process of appeals and incarceration adds to an already costly punishment...
...often justice must be served in a slow and deliberate, not swift and sure, manner. When society makes the grim decision to put an individual to death, when it terminates its end of the social contract with a human being who has broken his side of the deal, society must proceed as deliberately and as scrupulously as possible. The value of capital punishment lies not in easing the pain of the victims' loved ones but in providing society with a tool that it can use, in exceptional situations, to destroy the absolutely irredeemable...
Markets like to see management, or government, openly recognize problems. That's the vital first step toward fixing them. In Japan, last week's bank failure was the catharsis that investors wanted, and the market's swift approval is certain to encourage more bold acts. Indeed, the ink hadn't dried on this page when giant Yamaichi Securities said it too would liquidate--and regulators pledged cash to protect the firm's clients. Japan's financial system has some $500 billion of uncollectible debt--reminiscent of the savings-and-loan mess in the U.S. a decade ago. America's taxpayer...
Harvard corners are athletic and they have stayed with swift wideouts all year long. But at times they have struggled to pick up balls in the air, adjust and make plays on them. A season's worth of jump balls may have paid off yesterday...