Word: swiftness
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Gorbachev had demonstrated his clout four weeks before the plenum by taking swift action against the military in the wake of West German Pilot Mathias Rust's spectacular landing just outside Red Square. When the Hamburg teenager's single-engine Cessna penetrated some 400 miles of Soviet airspace with impunity, Gorbachev immediately sacked Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov and Air Defense Chief Alexander Koldunov. In addition to giving the country an object lesson in the personal accountability of those in power -- and demonstrating the military's subservience to the political leadership -- Gorbachev seized the occasion to place a reform-minded ally...
...Enlightenment principles of reason, optimism, order and a wariness of emotion and passion. The Constitution's architects, all fundamentally British Enlightenment minds, sought to build a home that Americans could live in without toppling it by placing their impulses above their rationality. To these men, who grew up on Swift, Hume, Locke and Pope, stability and moderation were not only practical measures but signs of morality...
Unable to provide the swift military victory demanded by the island's Buddhist Sinhalese majority, Sri Lankan President Junius Jayewardene may now try to appease that constituency by continuing to stand up to India, though he will surely try to avoid provoking a military response that would topple him from power. He also faces the problem of preventing Sinhalese anger from erupting into bloody race riots, such as those in which an estimated 1,000 Tamils were massacred in 1983. "Rajiv Gandhi may have acted out of domestic compulsion," said a Sri Lankan official, "but he doesn't seem...
MANY OF God's creatures are built for speed: The lean and hungry cheetah. The soaring spine-tailed swift. And let us not forget the turbo-charged Ferrari 380 GTS. But fast as they are, not one of these will able to touch my heels the moment that $64,000 piece of parchment touches my palms. Like a bat out of hell, Alyshiba out of the gate or Larry Bird out of the back court, I will be out of Harvard so fast it will make your head swim and your crops wilt...
...stockholders' meeting last week, management had lined up the votes to ram through its plan. In a swift 14 minutes, the reverse stock split was approved. But while the opposition lost a major battle, the war may not be quite over. For the past month the dissidents have been trying to spread their holdings to other family members and trusts so that even after the reverse split there will be more than 300 shareholders. On one day in April, three Bacardis met at Miami's airport and created 240 trusts. Management claims that these shifts came too late. Whatever...