Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people flooded out of the park toward Peachtree Street, a stream of ambulances sped in to carry the wounded to local hospitals. The evacuation was swift and efficient. But even at four in the morning the streets were still populated; authorities had thrown up a non-negotiable security barricade around the park, stranding many people who could not get back to their hotels. Resigned to living through a strange night, many just curled up to sleep on the sidewalks as helicopters whirred overhead. Khaki-clad soldiers marched in formation into the Main Press Center, while men in FBI jackets poked...
...Island last week. What killed them? A mechanical malfunction? A technical failure had once sent another hardy Boeing 747 crashing into a Japanese mountain, killing more than 500 people. But this 747 had burst into flames 13,700 ft. in the air. What accident could have caused such a swift and merciless catastrophe...
...Rwanda's ethnic civil war two years ago, diplomats have been watching for similar tensions to boil over in its volatile Central African neighbor, Burundi. Now they have. Wednesday, Burundi President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya found himself holed up in the the U.S. embassy after what appeared to be a swift military coup led by ethnic Tutsis, the rival tribe that controls the military. Ntibantunganya, a member of the Hutu tribe, had led an unstable coalition government with the UNPRONA, a Tutsi-led party. "The president was a moderating influence that the international community could rally around," reports TIME's Andrew Purvis...
...Rwanda's ethnic civil war two years ago, diplomats have been watching for similar tensions to boil over in its volatile Central African neighbor, Burundi. Now they have. Wednesday, Burundi President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya found himself holed up in the the U.S. embassy after what appeared to be a swift military coup led by ethnic Tutsis, the rival tribe that controls the military. Ntibantunganya, a member of the Hutu tribe, had led an unstable coalition government with the UNPRONA, a Tutsi-led party. "The president was a moderating influence that the international community could rally around," reports TIME's Andrew Purvis...
Wrong. The 30-sec. spot, now airing on KRIS-TV, an NBC affiliate in Corpus Christi, Texas, is a landmark: the first deviation from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States' self-imposed ban on TV advertising, adopted in 1948. Reaction was swift. The ad "could open the airwaves to a flood of hard-liquor ads," fumed Democratic Congressman Joseph Kennedy II of Massachusetts, who is well aware that his family's fortune was fortified with liquor profits. He has introduced a bill that would not only ban TV ads for hard liquor but also restrict those for beer...