Word: swiftness
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...starting up schools or transit systems. In processing applications for bond guarantees or for federal subsidies for low-income housing, HUD also ensnarled the applicants in reams of unnecessary red tape. "Decisions are made, unmade and obfuscated to a degree that makes the imperial Chinese bureaucracy appear decisive and swift-moving," says Mark Freeman, executive director of the League of New-Community Developers. The effect has been to stifle the very experimentation that Congress had called...
...blood that spurted into the camera from mouths and noses. Maybe the eye gougings did it. Certainly, by the time Chiba attacked a would-be rapist-leveling him with a flying fist and tearing his privates off, decorum and community standards had been sufficiently outraged so that a swift X was bestowed. Even more swiftly, the American distributors seized on this dubious honor and tried to turn it to their advantage...
...depletion allowance from a $21.3 billion tax-reduction bill intended to stimulate the economy and help bring the recession to an end. Liberal Democrats in the House had insisted on tying the two measures together, even though their leaders had warned that the debate over depletion repeal might delay swift passage...
Both goals came when the Crimson defensive tandem of Larry Pratelli and Todd Nieland was on the ice. In this respect, the game was a repeat of the 7-2 Harvard loss I the Beanpot-final, as the swift Terrier forwards were once again too much for the two to handle...
...that was the difference in the match, however. When Harvard was not on its power play, the Crimson offense was impotent. The loss of Thomas was not felt on the power play. But it was sorely suffered by linemates Leigh Hogan and Teddy Thorndike Coach Bill Cleary used Phelps Swift and Billy Hozack in an effort to get the line moving, but these substitutions were to no avail...