Word: swoops
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Fact is, Dartmouth should. And Harvard should swoop...
...easy for the Church, with the political power that it wields in Los Reyes, to conquer both the village news and Amaro’s personal integrity in one brutal swoop. Its power can deflect responsibility and blame from its own stainless purity, to channel it into those less financially and politically equipped, and to find the innocent guilty. The only person who has any respect for truth and justice is, ironically, a journalist: Amelia’s ex-boyfriend, son of a liberal “heretic,” who exposes the sins of the fathers...
Councillors and school committee members alike attacked the plan—both for not going far enough in addressing inequity in the school system and for going too far and making radical changes in one fell swoop...
...Harvard officials say the Watertown agreement represents a special case, since Harvard’s holdings constitute about one-third of that town’s tax base and were purchased in one fell swoop. An agreement like the 1990 deal would have had catastrophic effects on Watertown’s city budget...
...wasn't just Pentagon nerves that got in the way of a more aggressive counterterrorism policy. So did politics. After the U.S.S. Cole was bombed, the secretive Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., drew up plans to have Delta Force members swoop into Afghanistan and grab bin Laden. But the warriors were never given the go-ahead; the Clinton Administration did not order an American retaliation for the attack. "We didn't do diddly," gripes a counterterrorism official. "We didn't even blow up a baby-milk factory." In fact, despite strong suspicion that bin Laden was behind...