Word: rapids
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...communications that Saddam will be unable to phone his generals, who will be unable to talk with their field commanders, who will be unable to give orders to the troops on the front line. Anticipating that difficulty, Baghdad has reportedly given field commanders sealed orders on paper, but the rapid pace of battle could quickly render those orders obsolete. And many Iraqi commanders are believed to have been too terrified by Saddam's frequent purges and executions of officers to be able to improvise strategy or tactics effectively...
With its legendary aggressiveness, Laventhol accrued a record haul of $345 million from 50 offices across the country in fiscal 1990. But size was its demise. "In their quest for rapid growth, they took on some clients that they shouldn't have," says Arthur Bowman, editor of Bowman's Accounting Report, a trade newsletter, "either in industries that they didn't understand or clients who were running very risky ventures." But if the 360 Laventhol partners are licking their wounds, its 3,400 remaining employees are left with even less: job hunting in the emaciated financial industry. Some...
Vice Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, who sponsored the resolution, said that the council stands behind students in their efforts to nudge University administration into more rapid and decisive action to rebuild the Afro-Am Department...
Veteran P.R.I. officials concede that there is "a contradiction" between the rapid renovation of Mexico's economy and the slow pace of political change. Opposition politicians on both right and left go further, accusing the P.R.I. of outright electoral abuses. Various international human rights groups and local activists cite a growing number of incidents of police harassment and brutality. Intellectuals, especially those linked to popular opposition leader Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, who lost to Salinas in 1988, accuse the government of orchestrating a campaign to intimidate and silence political opponents. Says Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, a professor of political science at Mexico City...
...shifted away from prickly concerns about a gringo economic invasion and set U.S.-Mexican relations on a steadier course. Conversely, his approach to Mexico's perennial lawlessness has been firm, from tracking down top drug traffickers to jailing corrupt union and business leaders. Admirers who call Salinas' rapid-fire methods "world-class" say this President is a man in a hurry...