Word: swiftness
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...matter how poor black movies are, they are probably no worse than 75 per cent of the trash Hollywood has continually turned out for the white market. In recent years there has been a steady deterioration in the quality of American films marked by the swift move to exploit new markets soon after they are discovered. After the success of Easy Rider, we were forced to endure countless poor imitations produced in an attempt to drain the maximum amount of dollars out of a new consumer group...
Possibly because he was a mite too aggressive in checking the swift Russian forwards, the Soviets in charge of selecting the stars of the final game ignored Esposito (they chose Henderson and the Rangers' Brad Park) even though he scored two goals and two assists. Yet the slight was mild compared with the puerile and unsportsmanlike behavior that marked much of the series. Soviet team officials demanded that Canadian Coach Harry Sinden order Defenseman Gary Bergman to stop skating past baronial Russian Coach Vsevolod Bobrov during games, on the ground that Bergman was making menacing gestures and lewd comments...
Almost all the major grain firms are privately owned, and their officers have an understandable preference for secrecy as they play their complicated game against alert, swift competitors. Six firms account for 90% of U.S. grain exports, including Memphis-based Cook Co., Argentine headquartered Bunge Corp., Swiss-owned Garnac and French-controlled Louis Dreyfus Corp. The two giants, which share half the world's grain shipments, are Cargill Inc. of Minneapolis...
...playing non-league interstate rivals and things look good. Only Brown can be considered to have an excellent shot at losing. With so many games on tap. I'd better cut the intro and get down to the hard core pr-pre-por-porno-pornogr-progn ostication. A swift salute to the Ivies chances and we're on to the nicks...
When a Lufthansa Boeing 737 with 42 passengers aboard had to take swift evasive action to avoid being rammed by a U.S. Air Force Phantom over Rudesheim on a clear day last July, it seemed like one of the normal hazards of flying in West Germany's overcrowded airspace. But that same day a British airliner approaching Hamburg had a near miss with another jet fighter. Ten days later, another British plane was buzzed by an unidentified Phantom not once but three times, the last pass coming within 100 yds. That could hardly have been accidental...