Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crack, a smokable form of cocaine, is a drug that might have been designed for use on the job. It is easy to conceal, since it burns with virtually no odor, and the gratification is swift: an intense, almost sexual euphoria that lasts only about five minutes and is not accompanied by such telltale side effects as alcohol's slurred speech and heroin's drowsiness...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan's advisers yesterday recommended curtailing deposit insurance for bank and savings and loan accounts, triggering swift negative reaction from Congress and the Treasury Department...
...core, the A.N.C. position is equally nonnegotiable, calling for a swift transfer of state power from whites to blacks. The exiled organization stands unwaveringly for one-person, one-vote majority rule in a unitary state. Such an arrangement is "unfair" and unacceptable, says De Klerk. "Afrikaners won't agree to that until they are militarily defeated," says a senior diplomat in Pretoria, "and the balance of power in the country right now does not favor revolution...
...House was expected to approve the measure today after yesterday's consideration of the California request by the Appropriations Committee. Swift Senate action was also anticipated, because the money was attached to a bill that needs enactment before Thursday to avert a government shutdown...
...House proposal brought a swift protest from U.S. carmakers, who contended that the clean-air standards would raise car prices and strain technical resources. The companies argued that auto exhaust is already 96% cleaner than it was before pollution-control measures were introduced two decades ago. Noting that the House limits would be tougher than those President Bush put forward in his clean-air package last summer, General Motors President Robert Stempel asserted, "For our business it would be extremely tough. It went further than the President proposed, and we're deciding how to handle...