Word: swifts
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HOSPITALIZED. JANE SWIFT, 36, acting Republican Governor of Massachusetts, eight months into her pregnancy with twins; with early contractions; in Boston. Though Swift plans to continue running the state from bed, the Governor's Council voted 5 to 3 to ask the state supreme court about the constitutionality of her attending official meetings by speaker phone...
...With one swift stroke, however, that could change. Free Red Sox tickets could go along way towards healing rifts with the Cambridge City Council. A luxury box seat in the new stadium would probably silence Ted Kennedy’s attacks about the living wage...
...Wednesday the Boston Globe outlined a plan to bring the protest to a swift conclusion while allowing everyone at Harvard to benefit. Harvard would agree to raise to $10.25 per hour the wages of the approximately 400 workers it directly employs, with the implicit goal of extending the same wage to all other workers on campus. In return, protesters would leave Massachusetts Hall and allow the University to begin negotiating wage agreements for both union and non-union workers...
Kerrey's Raiders, as the squad called itself, had little experience but lots of enthusiasm. Despite warnings of "considerable danger," toward 12 midnight on a moonless night, the men piled into a swift boat and headed for Thanh Phong. Darkness gave cover but heightened the confusion. As the men crept toward the village, they bumped into an outlying hooch they thought was a warning outpost. Kerrey says his men, wielding knives, told him they would "take care" of the people inside to prevent them from alerting the village. But Kerrey says he did not join in the killings or examine...
...that includes Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. For eight weeks, researchers tracked 128 children, ages 6 to 17, who had been diagnosed with serious anxiety disorders. When they were offered behavioral therapy alone, only five children showed any improvement. When they were given Luvox, a brand of fluvoxamine, 76% showed swift and substantial improvement...