Word: swiftness
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Increased registration has had a crucial impact in liberalizing the legislative process, as demonstrated by Congress' swift reversal of the Reagan veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act. Every Democrat in the Senate voted to overturn the veto, and only 10 out of the 250 Democrats in the House who voted opposed the bill. Such nearunanimity among Democrats in opposition of the President is completely unprecedented in the Reagan years, since most Southern conservatives unquestioningly follow the President's wishes. Their willingness to buck the President on this issue is testament to the increased influence of Black constituents...
...governor's bill, but let me tell you at every street corner in America he will declare it as his bill," Senate Assistant Minority Leader David Locke said in a floor speech to block swift consideration of the bill...
Earlier in the day, Republican State Committee Chairman Ray Shamie and Dukakis exchanged broadsides over the swift schedule the Democratic leadership had plotted for the bill's consideration...
...hockey, you don't usually talk of field possession. Hockey, by design, is a game of swift attack, with one team flying up the ice and the other team returning the favor. But last night, Harvard kept the puck in its own end for an inordinate amount of time. The Army could only dig trenches and watch, helpless, as puck after puck spurted into...
...group's third member is D.J. Kid Swift, ahighly ranked professional disk jockey. "The d.j.of a rap album," Shecter explained, "is the guywho manipulates the record on the turntable toproduce a scratching sound...