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Cuomo's mind is swift and shrewd, almost awesome in its ability to grasp and retain material. He takes a lot from his voracious reading. "This morning," he wrote recently in his diary, "I read an hour or so of The Razor's Edge (Somerset Maugham's novel about a restless man searching for inner understanding). It always had good meanings for me." Another morning he rereads portions of Thomas Jefferson's autobiography. "One thing struck me," wrote Cuomo, "the logical forcefulness of his debate...
...swift growth has come largely through acquisitions. Last year, for example, GM bought Norwest Mortgage of Minneapolis and Philadelphia's Colonial Mortgage group for $335 million. That made GMAC the nation's second-largest mortgage lender, with $22 billion in commercial and home loans on its books. Also in 1985, Chrysler acquired E.F. Hutton's commercial lending subsidiary for $125 million, and Ford paid $493 million for San Francisco-based First Nationwide Financial Corp., the holding company for the eighth-largest savings and loan...
...Soviet-led drive to prevent the bloc's economies from falling even more hopelessly behind those of the West. In a 40-minute speech to the 2,600 delegates in East Berlin's modernistic Palace of the Republic, Gorbachev called on his allies to meet the challenge of swift economic and technological change by moving toward close and intense cooperation "on a whole new order of magnitude." Said he: "Socialism's appeal and its strength in the international arena will depend, to a decisive degree, on this...
Ross, who is visiting Harvard from New Mexico, has studied the effectiveness of different methods of deterring drunk driving worldwide. "Punishment must be certain, severe and swift," he said...
...loudly, vowing vengeance, then raised his big stick. Given the dangers posed by terrorism, such a response was understandable, even justified. Then, at least for a moment, came an eerie pantomime of waiting and hesitation. Given the risks involved, the fact that the sword of vengeance cannot always be swift was also understandable, also justified...