Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TOREDUCE this crippling dependence, they advocate swift decontrol of prices and demand reductions through conservation. But unlike rightwing proponents of decontrol, they are aware at least of equity considerations, and propose a huge windfall profits tax of up to 90 per cent to slash Big Oil's potential profits...
...join in at home. "I ask thee to stay." Wearing a yellow ribbon in her dark hair, she said a shade more firmly: "I'm feeling good and I've lost weight, for which I'm grateful." Her hostage roommate at an undisclosed location, Elizabeth Ann Swift, appeared more controlled. "Merry Christmas to the whole family," she said. "Kate's a marvelous roommate. Tell everybody we're O.K." She too wore a yellow ribbon in her hair...
...Soviet arms race and damage Soviet prestige in the East bloc and the Third World. Relations with the incoming Reagan Administration might never thaw. Said a U.S. State Department official: "There is no facet of international affairs in which the Soviets would not lose." Western economic reprisals would be swift and painful; the European allies, which had little taste for the Afghanistan embargoes imposed by the U.S., would be far more responsive concerning Poland. Sales of grain and sophisticated technology to the Soviets might well be shelved, and so might plans for a ballyhooed natural gas pipeline between Siberia...
International reaction to the tragedy was swift. The U.S. provided six military helicopters and 2,000 tents and pledged an initial $1.5 million to a relief fund, while a welter of private charities set up funds of their own in American cities with large Italian immigrant populations. The European Community appropriated $2 million for disaster relief. Red Cross societies in at least nine countries, including Japan and South Korea, provided funds...
...camera immobile, the long scene played out in one shot. Later, after the lord. Shingen, has been assassinated, we learn that he was called the Moutain, that the Moutain did not move, and therein was his strength as a ruler and a warrior. Under his leadership, armies could move "swift as the wind, quiet as a forest, fierce as fire," and in spite of occasional cruelties, he maintained order and defeated his enemies in battle. But--oh, Lord--how fragile is that order, how fleeting the lord's life, how quick to descend are the forces of chaos when Shingen...