Word: swiftly
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...banking chief at CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON won't be voted Mr. Popularity anytime soon. In his first staff meeting since being plucked from the firm's energy group, the native Nigerian told senior execs they are the focus of a new round of job cuts that will be "swift and severe." As the bank moves to cut costs after posting its first unprofitable quarter since 1997, Ogunlesi, 48, also advocated the use of taxis over limos...
...against supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Tsvangirai, the third MDC official to be arraigned on the treason charge, was released on bail and had to surrender his passport. "It was expected," he told TIME. "So much for reconciliation." Though international reaction to Mugabe's victory was swift - the Commonwealth suspended Zimbabwe from the organization's councils for a year - the chances of change in the country look increasingly slim...
...Swift's being a working mother might not have been such an issue if she hadn't made it one. "I'm sure there isn't a working parent in America who hasn't faced it. . . when the demands of the two tasks that you take on both increase substantially, something has to give." But nothing had to give until the well-heeled Mitt Romney, fresh from successfully cleaning up the bribery-tainted Olympics, was about to come into the race and a poll showed him beating her by more than 60 points. That, more than being a parent, which...
...well known for being a mother (Governor Mom) as for being lieutenant governor and becoming acting governor when Gov. Paul Celluci left in April 2001, Swift entered the national consciousness when she commandeered a state helicopter Thanksgiving weekend in 1999 because, she later explained, her first child, Elizabeth, was sick. Racing home in the face of that is one of the few things Swift did in her short tenure I applaud. But being a worried parent doesn't exempt you from the law. If you don't own up to the personal use of a state plane...
...Despite all this the Bush White House supported her candidacy to the end. If Swift could have stopped the hemorrhaging, she might have had a better chance in liberal Massachusetts than Romney, who lost once to Ted Kennedy for the Senate in 1994. Romney came out of that race exposed as a venture capitalist willing to sacrifice labor, having made his millions at the expense of Massachusetts workers. And being pro-life doesn't help...