Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vengeance. Not only was the weather sweltering-temperatures hovered around 90 degrees all week long-but there was also a temperature inversion. Like a lid on a jar, a stagnant upper layer of warm air kept heated air below from escaping. And what air! The city's brisk winds stopped dead; the sky darkened. Oxidants, caused by the reaction of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons to sunlight, became a major addition to the city's usual outpourings of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and tiny particles of lead, asbestos and other suspended matter. Day after day the city...
...mutual renunciation-of-force agreement. Paris, London and Washington have all supported Bonn's initiatives-notwithstanding South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's charge last week that Brandt was moving toward a "one-sided surrender" to the Russians. In short, Brandt's progress has been sufficiently brisk to raise conjecture about Ostpolitik's logical finale: What would happen if Brandt should grant full recognition to Walter Ulbricht's East German regime...
Incredibly, both films appear to be doing a brisk business at the box office, thereby presenting the possibility of still more sequels. Perhaps in the next installment, both formulas could be combined. The Carrie Nations, for example, could tumble through the time warp. Or some of the apes could show up in Hollywood, where executive positions await them at 20th Century...
...thrusts, the President displaying anew his ability to retain detail, his satisfaction in intercepting a debater's point, his grasp of the theorems of foreign policy discourse. Yet the conversational format seemed nonetheless ill-suited to the Nixon style and personality, which fit more easily into the brisk, orderly one-shot answer of the mass press conference...
...revive the economy. The personal savings rate has rebounded. Personal income, already increased by raises in social security benefits and Government pay, will rise further with expiration of the 5% income tax surcharge this week. Most important, the Federal Reserve has been feeding money into the economy at a brisk though uneven rate since February. But since it usually takes nine months for a change in money policy to turn the economy around, business is not likely to start picking up until late this year or early...