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Word: quickness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...political job.' When I came to NATO, they said I'm too political for such a military job." As it turned out, he was superbly right for the job, as the men and women under his command and virtually all European leaders now acknowledge. Demonstrating a quick mind, a prodigious memory and a forceful speaking style, he soon won over his detractors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Reagan Sticks With Haig | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

There is no quick fix for the Everything Crisis caused by energy prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Seven Lean Years | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...industry, which has some of the most skilled lobbyists in Washington, is not expecting quick legislative changes during a Reagan Administration. But it is looking forward to better relations with the federal energy bureaucracy. Says one oilman: "We will at least be moving away from the days when the participants in Earth Day became assistant secretaries at the Department of the Interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Oil for the Lamps of Reagan | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...malign. Higgins has little more to tell us about the personalities of his three secretaries than those first alarm clocks did: Judy (Jane Fonda) is square, Doralee (Dolly Parton) is frilly, Vi (Lily Tomlin) is sensible. Together, though, they are a Stenographic catastrophe; they'd lose the quick-brown-fox race to Charlie's Angels. Vi, "the smart one," thinks she has poisoned her insufferable boss; she hasn't. The three then kidnap a cadaver from the hospital, thinking they've got their boss in the car trunk; they haven't. The movie is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stenos, Anyone? | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...came out storming after the opening buzzer and got an emotional boost when Sara Fischer gave Harvard a 1-0 lead in the first ten seconds of play. Center Alex Lightfoot beat the Tiger defender to the puck in the corner and centered it to Fischer, who rifled a quick wrist shot by goalie Becky Potter...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Icewomen Falter in Thriller | 12/18/1980 | See Source »

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