Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race is not always to the swift. The battle is not always to the strong. But that...
...state House of Representatives begins deliberation of the $12 billion fiscal 1990 budget, with House Speaker George Keverian '53 predicting swift passage...
Reaction was swift. On Wall Street Cray's stock fell 10% in one day. In Japan some thought they smelled a "political maneuver." Since U.S. agencies like to have at least two bidders on any contract, the exit of ETA opened a window of opportunity for Cray's Japanese rivals. The Cray split, they suspect, may have been designed to close that window. Cray officials do not deny it. Chuckles one: "They got the message in a hurry...
...Communist Party's ruling Politburo. This week Shevardnadze confers with U.S. Secretary of State James Baker in Moscow, then flies to Bonn to meet with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Early next week he heads to Beijing for the long-awaited summit between Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. The swift pace of change during Shevardnadze's almost four-year tenure at Smolensky Square has left foreign diplomats, to say nothing of his weary staff in Moscow, a bit breathless...
...winds of war whip briskly through this novel of the Philippines just before and during the Japanese occupation. Ralph Graves, who knew the islands as the teenage stepson of the U.S. High Commissioner during 1939-41, re- creates the prewar colonial atmosphere, the swift arrival of the enemy after Pearl Harbor and the struggle to survive until General Douglas MacArthur's triumphant return. Graves, the last managing editor of the weekly LIFE and a retired editorial director of Time Inc., deploys a diverse cast of characters (American, Filipino and Japanese) whose fates are joined in a narrative that combines...