Word: quickness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...quick start, as well as a comeback, was a task that Harvard could not effectively perform last season. After rising as high as seventh in the nation, a six-game midseason slide left the Crimson at .500, with a lowly 2-4 mark in the Ivy League...
...Harvard's typical early struggle was only deferred about 10 minutes. The Pioneers, who traditionally play Harvard early in the season and have always provided close competition, bounced right back, scoring three quick goals to bring Post within one, 5-4, at the end of the first period...
...Returning assignments sooner. The report says that "quick turnaround" in handing back assignments is important. The likelihood that one will reread or learn from a corrected assignment goes down the longer it takes to get it back...
Long before the polls closed, the people knew what they had done. Before the radio began reporting returns, before the platoons of international observers were totting up their "quick counts" and the battalions of reporters were frantically calling in the news, the word had spread across Managua. "We're going to win!" shouted a woman tending a bubbling cauldron in front of her house in one of the city's poorest barrios, thought to be a stronghold of the ruling Sandinistas. The Sandinistas? she was asked. "No, not those sons of bitches," she spat back. "The Dona. Dona Violeta...
...plan to help Chamorro consolidate her victory. Bush has promised to let the five-year trade embargo lapse when Chamorro takes office, and he will no doubt agree to restoring Nicaragua's credit at the international lending institutions. He will resume full diplomatic relations. But his aides have been quick to dismiss the notion of a cash windfall. "It will not be anywhere near what some of the Nicaraguans are asking," said an Administration official. The U.S. is strapped for money for its own domestic needs and swamped by requests from other emerging democracies. Bush appears likely to limit himself...