Word: whirlwinding
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...whirlwind week of diplomacy for Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. Before meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Tokyo, he spent three days in Canada, ostensibly exploring how the two countries could work together to promote world trade. But there was another purpose for the visit. Nakasone wanted assurances that forthcoming U.S.-Canadian talks aimed at negotiating a free-trade agreement would not cut Japan off from its Canadian markets...
...written records of the shredded rooftops and shingles of Memorial Hall and Memorial Church and pictures of fallen trees in Sever Quad confirm Carol’s whirlwind through the Yard...
...differences in regulatory environments alone don't explain the South Koreans' success, as TIME's visits to Hwang's lab in early May and again last week made clear. The laboratory is a whirlwind of purposeful activity, and nobody is busier or more focused than Hwang, its director...
...Thus the whirlwind of pressure was precipitating some sort of reappraisal. But the day of fundamental change has not yet arrived. The Botha government, even if it has revised its private notion of the national destiny, could have second thoughts. Certainly it will have trouble selling the idea of reform to rightwing South Africans. On previous occasions, South Africa has appeared ready to grant independence to Namibia, the territory also known as South West Africa, which Pretoria has ruled since 1920. Each time, however, the government has reconsidered: three months ago, it installed in Namibia a "transition" government that Pretoria...
...thank-you, only then would the tired, probably overfed and over-fawned-upon royal couple fly back to London. They would get home just in time to celebrate the Prince's 37th birthday with William and Harry and for Diana to tell her boys bedtime stories about her whirlwind trip to the colonies and how pretty the monuments looked against Washington's autumnal foliage. --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Mary Cronin and Alessandra Stanley/Washington