Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forced upon business by unprecedented global competition and financial turbulence, the change is so swift and powerful that it is churning across the business landscape with the force of an army of bulldozers. American companies have started the huge task of rebuilding themselves from the ground up, erecting a sleek new operating architecture to replace the unwieldy processes of the past. At corporate headquarters and on factory floors from New York City to Los Angeles, newly cost-conscious executives are on a relentless examination of the efficiency and effectiveness of everything they do. They are tearing up organization charts, selling...
Until such restructuring takes place, Europe is unlikely to make substantial progress against its chronic unemployment problem. Though some countries will show a slight improvement this year, the overall European jobless rate could remain stuck at 11%. The prognosis for a swift cure is bleak because manufacturers are continuing to trim their work forces as a way of containing costs and boosting productivity...
...government's response to the ad was swift. By midnight it had extended emergency press regulations to forbid publication of "any advertisement or report calculated to improve or promote the public image or esteem of an organization which is unlawful." Likewise forbidden were attempts to praise, defend, explain or justify the actions of illegal political groups. The import of the new rules was clear: any positive mention of the A.N.C. would be judged "subversive" and subject editors to a $9,000 fine, a ten-year prison term or closure of their publications...
...until now Ronald Reagan has relished the playing field of great power. The larger tragedy of the Iran arms deal could be that his heart has been wilted a bit, his eyes dimmed. The next time there seems to be an opportunity for swift, bold action to bolster America's cause in the world, the President may think first not of the glory but of the possible penalty, and he will go back to the fire and his memories...
Certainly, her swift if belated stroke of decisiveness against Enrile dispelled in a single blow much of the turmoil that was unsettling Manila. And when she went on to ax four controversial ministers, while signing a cease- fire with the Communist rebels, Aquino pulled off a strategic coup of her own. Few could doubt that she had mastered the Napoleonic axiom that "justice means force as well as virtue...