Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Belated Action. Stung by criticism as well as smog, Premier Eisaku Sato set up a central headquarters in Tokyo to coordinate efforts to deal with the pollution. City officials, meanwhile, rushed to complete what is ambitiously billed as "the world's quickest photochemical-smog warning system"-which means daily bulletins issued via radio and TV. So far, the smog is seeping across Japan faster than humans can chart it. On a hot, bright day last week, it reached Shikoku, smallest of Japan's four main islands, where more schoolchildren were suddenly afflicted with sore throats and eyes. Pollution...
Rogers is known to feel that such bellicose public posturing lessens rather than enhances chances for successful talks; as a lawyer and highly skilled negotiator, he knows that settlements often come quickest when the other party is not made to feel weak by being shoved against the wall. He believes that, because the Egyptians now feel more confident, they might conceivably be more disposed to negotiate. He also believes that the Russians harbor the same suspicions against the U.S. that the U.S. harbors against them-but that the Russians really want some kind of Middle East settlement. Even...
...shouldn't take a university-level mentality to figure out that the quickest way to get a bullet between the eyes is to throw rocks at soldiers with loaded guns...
...take them to the airport. A sign in the elevator warned guests that all the hotel's vital functions would be shut down and guards placed at every door in preparation for the huge anti-war demonstration Saturday. Over double martinis for most and Caesar Salad (the quickest thing on the menu), they summed...
...secret that the quickest way out of the draft is not the ideological battle of a CO claim or the prolonged agony of appeals within the draft system. For the pragmatic registrant who merely wants Out, the Army's physical fitness standards offer the most comforting set of loopholes...