Word: briskly
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...soon, it was time to move on. The stall was doing brisk business, and someone else wanted our stools, but we weren’t too upset. After all, lunch was only a few hours away...
...liquor arm United Spirits, the biggest whisky maker in India, and the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) have been doing a brisk trade in bitter remarks, each charging the other with unfairly blocking its exports. Hardly the spirit, given that "scotch whisky is enjoying its best growth prospects for a generation," according to Alberto Gavazzi, global brands director for Diageo, the producer of Johnnie Walker...
...Mighty Heart, he has enlisted the star power of Angelina Jolie (and her partner Brad Pitt as producer) to re-create the ordeal of Mariane Pearl, wife of Daniel Pearl-the Wall Street Journal reporter in Pakistan who was kidnapped and eventually beheaded by Islamic terrorists. The film is brisk and well told, and Jolie's bold, harrowing performance is altogether honorable-yet some overarching unity is lacking: ultimately, A Mighty Heart doesn't become more than an accumulation of dread and dreadful deeds...
...passengers are frustrated, so are airlines, which are starting to lose money despite brisk demand. The problem: the country's superannuated airports have been overwhelmed. Since the government opened India's skies to greater competition four years ago, the number of air passengers has nearly doubled, from 48.8 million in the year ending March 31, 2004, to 95 million today. Meanwhile, nine private airlines have started up in recent years. Some, like Kingfisher Airlines, are full service, but most are low-cost carriers that have wooed millions of travelers away from India's sluggish train and bus networks--and into...
...Chirac's domestic legacy is unlikely to take on new shine with hindsight (especially if Sarkozy fulfills his own promises to take brisk and energetic action on reform), but it may be ameliorated by his foreign policy achievements. Many observers in France predict Chirac's presidency will over time enjoy the kind of foreign-policy-inspired revision that partially rehabilitated Richard Nixon's place in history...