Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reaction to the expanding probe of Tyson Foods has been swift and furious. In a prepared statement, company spokesman Archie Schaffer accused Smaltz of going "outside the scope of the independent counsel's charge" and of "taking off on a politically motivated witch-hunt." Tyson has hired Thomas Green, a top Washington white-collar defense attorney, to represent the company. Smaltz, however, says he was given the jurisdiction to look into any criminal charges arising from his original inquiry. "It's a very broad mandate," he said in an interview...
...Sophomore cross-country runner Ian Carswell achieved a great feat with his swift feet. Carswell placed first in District 1 in the ICAA Championships, earning him a spot in the NCAA Championships in November. Carswell finished 35th out of 185 runners, a mighty fine accomplishment...
...Jane M. Swift (R-North Adams) said rent control places unfair burdens on landlords to subsidize their tenants. "It's unfair to expect a handful of individuals to meet the responsibility that should be a collective responsibility," she said...
...which debuted last weekend). That fate, however, is hardly to be lamented. The TV-size budget, for one thing, has forced director Christopher Menaul (Prime Suspect) to be resourceful. Instead of a lavish (and possibly campy) physical re- creation of the new Greater Germany, he suggests it in small, swift strokes. Tour buses carrying Western reporters on their first visit since the war roll past billboards touting one-world harmony and vacations in "Paris, Germania." (There's also an ad for the Beatles; those Hamburg clubs apparently survived.) The country is repressive and regimented, but the "Heil Hitlers" have grown...
...swift pace of biopsychiatric research has led to new tests for other mental illnesses. Leslie Prichep and her colleagues at the New York University Medical Center in Manhattan have retooled the electroencephalogram, or EEG, which measures the electrical activity of the brain, to identify various subtypes of schizophrenia, depression and other disorders. Their goal is to eliminate some of the trial and error that psychiatrists typically have to go through when prescribing pills for their patients. They have already seen results with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, a condition in which people continuously repeat the same sequence of thoughts...