Word: swiftness
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...personality behind Ueberroth's controlled demeanor, Robert Ajemian, TIME's Washington bureau chief for seven years, spent an intensive week with Ueberroth, accompanying him to his baseball commissioner's office, to several dinners, even on a Ueberroth search for a New York City apartment. Says Ajemian: "He has a swift, shrewd mind that picks up subtleties of conversation, nuances of tone of voice. He is a remarkable observer...
...financial industry. Banks in recent years have gained new freedom to pay whatever interest rates they wish, move into different businesses like stock brokerage and open offices across state lines. After the banks' poor performance this year, critics are asking whether the institutions can safely handle so many swift changes. Several members of Congress are talking about slowing the pace of deregulation...
...months ago U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz bluntly stated that the U.S. "must be willing to use military force" to combat terrorism. Said Shultz: "One of the best deterrents is the certainty that swift and sure measures will be taken against those who engage in it." But as frustrated U.S. officials tried to piece together a complete picture of what was going on at Mehrabad Airport, it seemed all too clear that a policy of retaliation had serious limitations. There was little that the U.S. could have done to prevent such a random act of terrorism. Indeed...
...days after reelection, Reagan sent an earnest note to Chernenko. A week later, surprisingly swift for the Soviet bureaucracy, the White House received a letter from Chernenko proposing the Shultz-Gromyko conference. "There had been positive signals," says a presidential adviser, "but nothing this explicit." Perle, probably the most influential arms-control critic in the Administration, had his calculations thrown off. Said he: "I'm amazed the Soviets came back to the table so soon. I hadn't expected them until spring...
...that, in such paintings as Eclipse at Newmarket, With a Groom and a Jockey, circa 1770, the plain rubbing-down houses on Newmarket Heath look like neo-Egyptian shrines, pyramids of the turf. They are, so to speak, the temples of Stubbs' Utopia, a place adjacent to Jonathan Swift's imaginary country of the Houyhnhnms, those sagacious and moralizing horses...