Word: swiftly
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...ended presidential power with no civilian review whatsoever," the brief argues, "to try anyone the President deems subject to a military tribunal, whose rules and judges have been selected by the prosecuting authority itself." Did the dissenting military lawyers meet resistance? Said one of the five, Lieut. Commander Charles Swift: "I'm going to characterize it as institutional surprise." The high court is expected to hear the case in April...
...confusing this for swift-skating, crisp-passing Billy Cleary hockey, but it was enough to win. And for this struggling Crimson team, that’s all that matters...
...tradition among cattlemen, of course, to grouse about the power of packers, who are constantly finding ways to cut costs--through mergers, automation and assaults on labor unions. But the three largest companies--Tyson Foods, Cargill and Swift & Co.--have their own woes. About $300 million in beef and by-products like liver and tongue (which American consumers generally disdain) are caught in the pipeline for foreign countries. In the far bigger domestic market, the packers are watching closely to see how consumers respond. Even then, it is unclear how a drop in demand would ripple through the industry...
...seem to be in no hurry to restart U.S. imports. Tokyo rebuffed an agricultural delegation from the U.S. last week and reportedly wants Washington to require mad-cow testing for all 35 million cattle killed in the U.S. each year--something David Hegwood, head of the American delegation, rejected. Swift, the No. 3 meat-packer in the U.S., launched a traceability program two weeks ago that uses retina tracking but said its system would not cover cattle all the way from birth to the box until the summer...
...difficult for Harvard to contain swift skaters like Voce and the Eaves brothers, at least tonight, with numerous players inactive. Due to injuries to senior Dave McCulloch and freshman Dylan Reese, the Crimson will only dress five defensemen. The added ice time for each available defenseman might take its toll on the unit’s energy and quickness, a fact that has not escaped Mazzoleni. But there is little Harvard can do to alleviate the problem...