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  • Education isn't a quick remedy for America's economic ailments, even at quick-acting community colleges.

    Demand Tests Two-Year Colleges David Wessel 2010

  • Monetary policy is quick-acting and historically reliable for the government to use as a short-run tool; and thankfully it's cheap for private citizens to monitor even if the timing of its effects isn't perfect; and it's easy to model.

    Kydland and Prescott win Nobel, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Although only last week, after Gawker outed up-and-coming New York Congressman Christopher Lee, he resigned--demonstrating just how quick-acting the career poison of public revelations of sexual motives is, still today.

    Marian Salzman: The Online Erogenous Zone Marian Salzman 2011

  • Although only last week, after Gawker outed up-and-coming New York Congressman Christopher Lee, he resigned--demonstrating just how quick-acting the career poison of public revelations of sexual motives is, still today.

    Marian Salzman: The Online Erogenous Zone Marian Salzman 2011

  • The elimination of the troublesome Catholic exile Reginald Pole was an idea cooked up by Wyatt and others in 1539; some ciphered letters remain, and some loose talk about the efficacy of quick-acting "Spanish poison", but it was more of a notional chess move than a genuine plot and nothing came of it.

    The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review 2011

  • They must be eating something poisonous, but it would have to be a quick-acting poison, since they are dying in small areas.

    Apocalypse now? Mystery bird deaths hit Louisiana 2011

  • If the toxin was quick-acting, he would be dead or possibly paralyzed before he escaped.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

  • It's tough to secure funding to study the effects of salvia divinorum, the intense, quick-acting and legal hallucinogenic plant growing in popularity among U.S. teenagers.

    Study Uses YouTube To Examine Effect Of 'Salvia' Drug (VIDEO) 2010

  • This is a quick-acting, depolarizing, paralytic drug that, by rendering Mabhouh incapable of resisting, could account for the lack of bruise marks on the body.

    More Questions About the Dubai Assassination Edward Jay Epstein 2010

  • This is a quick-acting, depolarizing, paralytic drug that, by rendering Mabhouh incapable of resisting, could account for the lack of bruise marks on the body.

    More Questions About the Dubai Assassination Edward Jay Epstein 2010

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