Word: swiftness
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...stir up a chorus of accusations that the U.S. was acquiescing to a devastating loss of international power. Yet, when the Nixon Administration last week submitted to Congress the Par Value Modification bill, which will devalue the dollar 8.57% by raising the price of gold, its prospects for relatively swift passage were all but certain. The man most responsible for anesthetizing the issue in Congress-and thus allowing an unavoidable economic adjustment to take place-is a thoughtful, patrician Democratic Representative from Milwaukee named Henry Reuss. Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee last week. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns told...
...swift succession of events produced fresh rounds of speculation about how and where the Hughes manuscript had originated. Assuming that Irving was telling the truth about the rest of his story, one theory still held that Howard Hughes had indeed met with the writer and poured forth his autobiography; then Hughes' associates persuaded him that he would have to disown the book or risk damaging financial and legal consequences. In this theory, Irving could be telling the truth about arranging the Swiss account at Hughes' request...
...declared Richard Nixon as he revealed on television the details of his secret peace proposals to Hanoi. The swift, scornful reaction to the plan from North Viet Nam made it doubly clear that Vietnamization must work if the U.S. is to succeed in making what the President called the "long voyage home." Radio Hanoi last week dismissed Vietnamization as a "bankrupt program." It is not that by any means, but few would deny that its reliability as a key factor in U.S. withdrawal strategy remains to be proved...
...Baltic, the Northern, the Black Sea and the Pacific-of 270 to 350 vessels each. It is second in overall size only to that of the U.S., and in some categories of ships, it is far ahead (see chart). In general the Russian ships-which range in size from swift 83.7-ft. Komar missile boats to the 19,200-ton Sverdlov cruisers, no longer in production-are faster and younger than the U.S.'s (an average of about eight years, v. about 18 for American ships...
Both supporters and opponents of the death penalty can cite ample horrors to justify their positions. Even the cleanest execution-and an appalling number are not-is so revolting to see that witnesses commonly vomit and faint. Electrocution is relatively swift, though the victim's flesh sometimes burns while his eyes strain out of their sockets. With cyanide and the rope, it sometimes takes five minutes for the dying man to fall totally unconscious, and usually 15 minutes before he is pronounced dead...