Word: swiftness
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This past June, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Yang was being held in violation of international law. Seemingly oblivious to international opinion and lacking all credibility, the PRC indignantly insisted it was meticulously complying with its own and international law. This statement earned a swift rebuke from the U.S. State Department, which immediately called for Yang’s release. Shortly thereafter, Congressional resolutions calling for Yang’s release passed unanimously in both the House and Senate. Along the way, Jianli has received significant support from University President Lawrence H. Summers, Ramsey Professor...
Advances in diabetes research over the past few years have been swift and wide ranging. Scientists are beginning to identify the genetic and environmental factors that predispose some people to insulin resistance and increase their risk of diabetes. They are looking beyond glucose levels to gauge patients' health and progress. They have identified other pathways that may play a role in triggering diabetes. Every new insight into Type 2 diabetes, from its biochemistry to its metabolic roots, makes clear that it can be avoided--and that the earlier you intervene the better...
...second goal at 9:19 of the third. Skating along the right-side boards in the Raiders’ zone, Cavanagh had senior winger Dennis Packard on his left and three Colgate defenders in front of him. His beautiful skating split the defenders and he flicked a swift shot by Colgate netminder Steve Silverthorn, giving Harvard the 3-2 lead...
...both died of brain tumors in the same year. It makes sense that ghosts should be endemic to a life as haunted as Tan's. Besides the deaths of her father and brother, she writes of losing a best friend in a violent murder, a beloved editor to swift cancer and, in the moving essay Last Week, of watching her mother succumb to Alzheimer's disease...
...many Iraqis, the law will never provide the brand of swift justice they crave. And each revenge murder plants the seeds for another. Sitting in the family living room in al-Amiriya, Omar and Mohammed al-Douri show visitors photographs of their late father, recalling how, after retiring from the mukhabarat, he painted the rooms of the house and always ensured that the refrigerator was fully stocked. "He was the tent for our family," says Omar. Asked whether they hope to find his killers, the sons nod purposefully. "The blood of our father is on our necks," says Mohammed...