Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shape his entire life. "A new specimen of human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting Jew." After a year in Soviet prisons, Begin went to Palestine and in swift order was leading the Irgun's violently anti-Arab and anti-British campaigns...
...That plan includes full autonomy for the Palestinians and would prohibit future Israeli settlements in the contested West Bank and Gaza Strip, so Begin perceived it as a rejection of his own well-laid plans. Certainly the Reagan proposal has features that may territorially slight Israel. But Begin's swift rejection of the plan wholesale led some Israelis to criticize his "hard-headedness" as detrimental...
...response of many minority Law School students was swift and angry. The Law School had not taken advantage of an opportunity to use the race course to bring in a tenure-track minority faculty member. Even though Chambers was an eminent Black attorney, he was of little use to the students' affirmative action plans, since he had made clear that he had no desire to seek permanent employment with Harvard. "This issue has been part and parcel of an ongoing struggle to enhance the 'minority' presence at HLS," Muhammad Kenyatta, president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association (BLSA) wrote...
Since that disastrous period, the stock exchange has spent some $70 million on eleven separate electronic systems to relay orders to trading posts, record sales and provide swift and complete information to brokers on how the market is moving. That costly investment paid some blue-chip dividends last week. The record-breaking torrent of trading was handled with ease. Even at the peak of the action on the 138 million-share day, the electronic tapes that list every single trade were a mere 18 minutes behind. It was all a bully good show. ? By Charles Alexander. Reported...
...that there would also be no trucks, trains or airplanes for delivering the mail. Later, Retired Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque, a defense policy expert, said, "I can assure you that while neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stay the postal couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, nuclear war will...