Word: swooped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet communist venture like one of Nikita Khrushchev's suits. Its secret has never been intelligence but rather ruthlessness. The cardinal rule of coupmaking, says Edward Luttwak of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, is "to seize control of all the centers of power in one fell swoop, to paralyze the situation." Even banana republics know this. The Gang of Eight was inexplicably though mercifully inept. Perhaps the conspirators picked up some debilitatingly humane manners during the Gorbachev era. They did not launch a coup but proffered a sort of half-coup, saying complimentary things about Gorbachev...
...this summer, such a deal eliminates much of the uncertainty that managers face when they surrender control of a tattered enterprise to a bankruptcy judge. Instead, the owner and creditors present the judge with a solution acceptable to all. If the complex TWA agreement is approved, the carrier may swoop in and out of Chapter 11 in a couple of months, escaping the kind of cloud that now hangs over Pan Am, Continental, America West and Midway as they endure lengthier bankruptcy proceedings. Says Icahn: "A free-fall Chapter 11 kills your revenues. The way we're doing...
...again learned. Instead of spring showers came the worst frost in more than 30 years, killing early buds in the vineyards. First assessments halved production forecasts for the year -- a loss of almost $690 million. Said Hubert Bouteiller of the Interprofessional Council for Wines in Bordeaux: "In one fell swoop, the work of a year's pruning was destroyed...
...FATHER is a vulture of good housekeeping. When I was young, he would swoop into my room with a garbage can and a laundry basket. "If it moves I'll shoot it," he would tell me. "If it doesn't move I'll wash...
...MISER. Philip Bosco does everything one could ask in the title role of Moliere's satire, except the indispensable: lurch into believable love-struck madness when his cherished cashbox is stolen. Other actors in this Broadway revival swoop and flutter and generally diminish the text, save for splendidly real and moving bits by John Christopher Jones as a long-suffering servant and Adam Redfield as a splenetic...