Word: quickness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...victory marked an extraordinarily quick rise by Collor, scion of a wealthy political and publishing family in Alagoas. His father Arnon de Mello, a federal Senator, earned a bizarre niche in Brazilian history in 1963 when he shot a fellow legislator to death on the Senate floor. The elder Collor served several months in jail before it was decided that he had acted in self- defense...
Most likely to leave you talking to yourself. Making a quick phone call to ask a simple question? Forget it. Since the advent of voice mail (a.k.a. automated answering systems), there are no simple questions -- just a maze of electronic choices that could have been designed by Kafka. Got a medical emergency? Please push 1. Want something kinky? Press 4. Need to talk to a human? Just stay on the line...
...battleground in Panama, however, a far less optimistic drama was unfolding. Confounding Pentagon hopes that Noriega's Panama Defense Forces would quickly crumble under a devastating U.S. onslaught, the fugitive dictator's men were preparing a determined counterattack. Instead of the quick and decisive knockout U.S. commanders had sought, the invasion was in danger of degenerating into a nasty street fight in densely populated Panama City. House-to-house fighting in a crowded urban area was something military planners were leery of because of the threat to civilians...