Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost $55 million last year largely because of its "WHO" discounting drive. The so-called middlemen are also largely blameless, though President Nixon last year fingered them as the main perpetrators of the food price jump. The meat-packing companies commonly earn about 1% on sales, and both Swift and Armour reported lower profits in booming 1972 than in the previous year...
...rarely devote more than an hour to deciding a man's sentence. "My point is that there is rarely, if ever, much to take longer about," he says. "There are virtually no rules or tests or standards-and thus no issues to resolve. The judgment is swift because the process of reaching it is not reflective or orderly...
...this year: an unrestricted cost-of-living "escalator." Under such a clause, workers' pay is automatically increased to reflect the full rise in consumer prices that occurs during the life of the contract. In quiet times, such a clause can be relatively inexpensive-but during a period of swift inflation it can make the wage-price spiral spin all the faster. The U.E. and International Union of Electrical Workers won only a limited escalator after striking G.E. for 14 weeks in 1969-70, and have collected 24? an hour in cost-of-living adjustments since then; had there been...
Reaction in Rome to the second Hebblethwaite attack was swift. In a front-page editorial, the Catholic daily L'Avvenire accused the English Jesuit of having a "deeply deformed view of the life and the problems of the church today, fed by ancient polemics according to which everything in Rome is always wrong." Pope Paul undoubtedly had critics like Hebblethwaite in mind when he said in a recent speech: "The Curia is unfortunately disfigured in the eyes of those who know it and perhaps love it least, as though it were an artificial complex, bureaucratic, legalistic, preoccupied only with...
...first The Digger's Game seems to follow familiar tracks. It is swift-paced, hard, quickly finished. Yet Higgins' plot exposes character, which deteriorates, producing plot, which further defines character. This describes the intent and achievement, not of a formula thriller, even one that is well written, but of a conventional novel. Of course, one does not want to goad a man who writes well about thugs to write badly about something else. Higgins' most obvious strength, moreover, is a traditional one for crime novelists. His dialogue is brilliant. "All the time, I'm thinking...