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Word: quickness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...news apparently came as a surprise to Duehay's fellow council members. Despite the sudden announcement, councillors and city officials were quick with congratulations and other friendly offers...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: City Hires Laywer to Examine Scheme Z | 12/11/1990 | See Source »

...experienced Roose, in turn, sent Onderdonk, Harvard's number-four player, to the consolation rounds after three quick games. After convincingly beating Dartmouth's top player, Onderdonk fell to, you guessed it, Lee Belknap...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: W. Squash Hamstrung At Princeton Tourney | 12/11/1990 | See Source »

When war broke out between Iraq and Iran in 1980, Carlos Cardoen, a small- ^ scale Chilean arms manufacturer, was quick off the mark: he flew to Baghdad in search of a deal. Because he had no contacts in the Iraqi government, "nobody would even see me," he recalls. "So I just left my brochures and went home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Cluster Bombs and Kiwis | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...deal is a testament to America's quick marketing abilities. Scarcely two months after American troops began arriving in the Persian Gulf, one of the marketing whizzes at Bloomingdales, the expensive department store chain, had devised "Operation Desert Shield from Home...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Blood, Sweat, Tears and Bloomies | 12/8/1990 | See Source »

...quick, say Harvard researchers, whopoint out that the conditions of the two studieswere not general enough to make any conclusionsabout the drug's overall effect...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Researchers Question Power of `Wonder Drug' | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

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