Word: briskly
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...more unwanted stock than ever. Shares across Europe traded down Tuesday, a day after registering their biggest single-day slide since September 11, 2001. London's FTSE 100 index fell 5.5% Monday, swiping $150 billion off the value of Britain's blue-chip firms. The sell-offs were brisk in Asia, too. Shares in China skidded more than 7% to a 5-month low Tuesday; markets even suspended trading in India and South Korea on the back of heavy losses...
...Business was brisk today. Hands, whose London-based private equity company Terra Firma picked up EMI for $6.5 billion last year, told his staff that as many as 2,000 of them would lose their jobs over the coming months as part of a plan to pare EMI's costs by around $400 million a year. More effort had to go into finding fresh acts, Hands said, as well as into getting more out of those the firm already has. Out will go diverse sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution units, to be replaced by a single division. "We believe...
Biden has seen standing room-only crowds, like the one in Ames, across the state in recent weeks. And the Ames audience was twice moved to its feet in ovations for Biden's stump speech - a surprisingly brisk 18 minutes compared to Obama's nearly hour-long closing argument, Hillary's 45-minute speeches and Edwards' typical 35-minute spiel. Biden by comparison spends more than an hour answering questions, a strategy, his communications director Larry Rusky says, that is starting...
...speech gets only polite applause. "Yasothon people are very hard to please," explains Sombat Phaopaeng, 31, an ice cream vendor doing a brisk trade at the rally on this sweltering morning. "They like Thai Rak Thai, they like Thaksin. But they don't like these particular candidates...
...thinks she does, but more about it than the adult world credits her with understanding. You're never quite sure which Juno you're trying to reason with, the innocent idealist or the shrewdly appraising demi-adult, especially since she offers all opinions in the same tone of voice - brisk, brusque, funny and very often dismissive of our pieties...