Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to this swift and direct intervention, confidence was maintained by the existence of safety nets and regulatory bodies created during the 1930s, including federal deposit insurance, Social Security and unemployment compensation. There was not a murmur of concern about the banking system since the public assumed, correctly, that the Government was the lender of last resort...
...East St. Louis, where his father earned a modest blue-collar wage as an engineer in a chemical plant. Carol came from Staten Island, from two generations of longshoremen. Neither Bob nor Carol went to college. But back then, lack of a degree was no impediment to swift upward mobility, and for Bob a union labor job was the quickest ticket into the booming American middle class...
...petition, submitted late last month, brought a swift University response. Officials agreed to meet with students in a discussion and response forum within a day after receiving the petition. Dean of the Law School Russell K. Osgood refused to grant refunds, saying. "The renovation work is taking longer that expected, and the plan is, the hope is, it will be completed in mid-December...
...Swift Action...
...International Olympic Committee should be applauded for its swift action in dealing with Ben Johnson and others who have violated the rules on steroids. Hopefully, the NFL, major league baseball, the NBA and the NCAA will deal with subsequent incidents in similar fashion...