Word: swiftness
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...somehow settled for Budapest as second best to their idealized Central European city?. What happens in this novel is not nearly so important as Phillip's wonderful grasp of Budapest's look, style and ethos, and his sometimes sympathetic, often scathing view of the Western interlopers. His writing is swift, often poetic, unerringly exact with voices and subtle details of time, weather and place. This novel is so complete a distillation of its theme and characters that it leaves a reader wondering how on earth Phillips can follow it up...This brilliant book seems certain to be widely and admiringly...
...With Mitt Romney in the race, the focus has changed from inward to outward,” Firestone said. “Everyone thought they could beat [Acting Gov.] Jane Swift, so they were campaigning against each other. But now that Mitt Romney is in the race, they are campaigning against...
...starting to pile up. Health authorities in Switzerland and Germany had gathered records of close to 30 incidents--"adverse-event reports," in the clinical jargon--in which kava users suffered severe liver damage. A few patients required transplants, and at least one died. The response in Europe has been swift and decisive. In the U.S., however, the FDA's hands are tied until researchers can establish a definite causal link between kava and liver disease. That could take years...
...just can't seem to stay on Wall Street's mind. First it was Enronitis. Then it was a lack of pent-up consumer demand. And now, just when it seemed economists and investors had decided that the road back to boom times might well be steep and swift, the markets have caught jihaditis...
...Still, the stakes are high enough this time to think that a cease-fire could happen. Wednesday's gruesome terror attack that killed 21 people and wounded more than 100 at a seder in Netanya brought swift condemnation from the U.S. and left Palestinians bracing for a forceful Israeli response. And if Arafat is not able to implement a cease-fire, an escalation of violence, which now seems imminent, may sound the death knell for General Anthony Zinni's diplomatic mission...