Word: whirlwinding
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...plot thickens from here--or rather, it becomes mush Guy falls for a beautiful attache at the British Embassy after a whirlwind, cardboard romance. As the hottest ticket in Jakarta's diplomatic community. Sigourney Weaver again makes heads turn But like the other subplots that spring up every five minutes, their relationship is almost irrelevant to the film's most important point the struggle by Hamilton and Kwan to work out for themselves how to deal with the frighteningly immense human problems they must confront every...
Agee and Hennessy were first thrown together in a fierce takeover fight last September. As chairman of Bendix, Agee tried to buy Martin Marietta Corp., but his prey decided to become the predator. To save Bendix from being bought by Martin Marietta, Agee turned to Hennessy, and after four whirlwind days of talks they agreed to merge. Agee got a promise that he would be president of Allied, but his future duties were not settled. Shortly after the merger was officially approved by stockholders a fortnight ago, Hennessy forced the resignation of Alonzo McDonald, who had been Agee...
Facing these grim facts of life, all 13 A.C.M. colleges are eager to become better known in the growing Southwest. To save money and attract a bigger audience, they mounted a joint recruiting effort and made a recent four-day whirlwind tour of Denver, Albuquerque, Tucson and Phoenix...
...aides attended to last-minute details of Bush's itinerary, the whirlwind of activity over the missiles was already well under way in Europe. In Bonn, Paul Nitze, 76, the chief U.S. negotiator in the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva, dropped hints of his own that the Administration was edging away from the zero proposal. After Nitze met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Defense Minister Manfred Wōrner, a senior West German official said: "The word used most often by Nitze was flexibility, with balance spoken more softly afterward...
...departing governor met with his successor for the traditional exchange of the Statehouse key, his aides were frantically shredding documents pertaining to the whirlwind appointments. When King left the Corner Office for the last time, the ink on several appointments proclamations was still drying, and the fireplace--fueled with papers that King obviously wanted concealed--was still glowing. Dukakis, on the other hand, spent that week reviewing his 30-member screening committee's final recommendations--the conclusion of a thorough two-month screening process--to fill out his cabinet and the rest of his administration...