Word: swiftness
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Others cited allegations that Blair’s race—he is black—contributed to his swift rise and to the failure of his editors to punish him for his mistakes...
...Egypt, however, President Hosni Mubarak seems less certain of how to pursue reform. Nothing illustrates this more than the fact that his 39-year-old son, Gamal, is being groomed as his possible successor, despite the fact that Egypt is a republic rather than a monarchy. Still, Gamal's swift rise up the ranks of the ruling National Democratic Party is heralding change. Educated at the American University in Cairo, he is a businessman rather than a military man. During a town meeting at his alma mater this week, he frankly acknowledged that "much still needs to be done...
...almost like we are falling in love as well. Well, we are, actually. Like any proper summer camp story, "Summer Job" has adventure as well. A canoe trip down some rapids soon turns dangerous when one of the boats cracks in half, trapping a camper under the swift current. Later, Paul and Annie find themselves in charge of Marie, a camper who is blind. Her irrepressible spirit becomes one of the book's emotional high points...
Reyes said that swift action from the KSG is especially needed because the court case has already taken more than six months...
...wine." Diplomacy, the French like to say, is sovereign; commerce ranks somewhere below. And angry wine merchants alone don't explain why official France is shucking off some of its haughty principles and doing what it can to get back in the fold; the hard reality of the swift Anglo-American victory in Iraq gives it little alternative. Chirac's phone call on Tuesday to Bush - their first conversation since Feb. 7, characterized as "positive" by the Elysée and as "business-like" by the White House - was a station of the cross on that pre-Easter walk...