Word: swiftness
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...small units of Israeli troops occasionally asked to pass through Marine checkpoints, in violation of the agreement that brought in the multinational force last year. The incidents have been relatively unimportant, but they emphasize the risks inherent in a failure to bring the Israeli occupation of Lebanon to a swift conclusion...
...Today's swift rise has surprised, and perhaps unnerved, some dominant regional newspapers, which have blatantly adopted some of the newcomer's selling points. The Austin American-Statesman is now splashed with color, rivaling USA Today's crisp photographs and streamlined graphics. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution imitated USA Today's national weather map, the Miami Herald its state-by-state compendium of news notes. The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune boosted sports coverage. Says Tribune Editor James Squires: "I see sports as USA Today's main draw...
...stock on the N.Y.S.E. was Coleco Industries, the videogame manufacturer, even though it ended the year 28% below its 1982 high. Coleco, the creator of Donkey Kong, absorbed a swift kick in December after Warner Communications, owner of Atari, projected a fourth-quarter slump in earnings caused by disappointing videogame sales. Coleco suffered in the ensuing market selloff, but then it bounced back. Having started the year 6⅞, the Stock wound up at 36¾. By last Friday, it had risen another 5%, thanks to Coleco's announcement that 1982 earnings could be quintuple those...
...standing less than 5 ft. 10 in., he is built more like a stagehand than an aristocratic maestro, and his round face, capped by a corona of curly hair, is a world away from the suave image of a Leonard Bernstein. Yet as his baton comes slashing down with swift, chopping strokes, he is abruptly transformed into a figure of grace. Cuing the orchestra, effortlessly guiding singers through an opera's trickiest passages, joyfully but inaudibly singing along, he has become Priestley's ideal personified. And why not? James Levine, 39, is doing what he was born...
...money he earns, estimated to be in the high six figures annually, is spent on creature comforts, such as good meals and his blue Cadillac Seville, which he joyfully pilots around Manhattan's pot-holed streets with the aplomb of a captain at the helm of a swift cutter. But he is also generous with his Met colleagues, sending them champagne on festive occasions and often giving a party at the Renaissance Center in Detroit to celebrate the company's yearly U.S. spring tour...