Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three institutions "blew it" he says, explaining that they failed to keep pace with the swift development in the field. Academic leadership in the discipline is said to have been transferred to such universities like Carnegie-Mellon Institute, MIT, and Stanford University...
...characterizations are swift and telling. In Bardon Bus, for example, a young woman falls in love often and, like the heroine of Chekhov's The Darling, identifies herself completely with each successive man in her life. "She takes up a man and his story wholeheartedly. . . Next time you see her she'll be in deep, going to fortunetellers, slipping his name into every other sentence; with this mention of the name there will be a mushy sound to her voice. . . Then comes the onset of gloom, the doubts . . . She will get drunk, and sign up for rolfing, swim...
...council's resolution will be submitted this week to President Bok, Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid L. Fred Jewett '57, along with a request for swift action on the matter, Council Chairman Sesha Pratap '84 said after the meeting...
Today the ticking may be louder than ever. Despite local officials' pleas for swift action, the agency took until two months ago to identify the 418 sites it regards as most dangerous. Of those, it has cleansed only five. Meanwhile, roiling criticism of the agency and its controversial administrator, Anne Gorsuch, attracted the attention of two congressional subcommittees, which began investigating charges that the EPA had made "sweetheart" deals with polluting companies and delayed cleanups for political reasons. When Gorsuch refused in December to turn over subpoenaed documents pertaining to 160 Superfund sites, she was cited for contempt...
...subsequent rise to criminal eminence was swift: she fell in with a dacoit named Babu Gujar, seduced his lieutenant Vikram Mallaha and, while bathing Gujar one evening, stabbed him to death. Thus Mallaha became chieftain, Phoolan second in command. Dressed in blue jeans and a multicolored turban, brandishing a stolen bullhorn and a rifle, she quickly earned a reputation as a deadly shot. When Mallaha's restive followers killed him, Phoolan formed her own gang. On Feb. 14, 1981, to avenge her lover's murder, she and her marauders gunned down 20 apparently innocent citizens in the village...