Word: swiftness
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...cent; and the National Council of Crime and Delinquency in 1974 found that one third of all inmates released since 1970 were back behind bars. It's not even clear that prisons deter crime: studies have indicated that it's the certainty of the punishment, that is, the swift and efficient working of the entire criminal justice system, rather than the severity of the sentence, that deters criminals...
...pulled ahead of the British, selling $3 billion in war materiel to some 80 nations, ranging from submarines for the navies of Spain, Portugal, Pakistan and South Africa to daggers for Tunisian commando units. The best-selling French items: various models of the Mirage supersonic fighters, the agile and swift AMX tanks, Alouette helicopters and radar-guided Exocet antiship missiles...
...meanness of spirit, TIME'S art critic and his story on Thomas Hart Benton [Feb. 3] deserve a good swift rebuke. I have never read a more transparently prejudiced attack on one of our most original and worthy artists...
...billion or more when Congress is through with the budget. For example, Ford wants to reduce Government spending this year by $17 billion through, among other things, limiting the mandatory increases in federal pay and Social Security and boosting the price of food stamps for the poor. But the swift approval that the House and Senate gave to bills blocking the food stamp proposal last week suggests that many of Ford's reductions will be rejected. Pechman reckons that the most Ford can expect is to cut spending by about $4 billion. In addition, Nathan sees Congress increasing spending...
...Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu as an "enemy of peace." Proclaimed their "indictment," which was reprinted in several Saigon newspapers: "It is impossible to obtain peace with Thieu, because he is a product of war, was nurtured on it and survived with it." The President's response was swift and predictable. The Saigon government confiscated nine newspapers and censored a tenth; five of the papers were closed down indefinitely, and 21 journalists and publishers were arrested on charges that they were "Communist agents...