Even so, new technology, like 3-D televisions that often need specialists to answer the questions of consumers, was not moving as briskly as hoped.
He suggests the Rockport Walking Test (above) - a one-mile walk (ideally on a smooth, level surface) as briskly as you can manage.
For my cousin, as for so many Spaniards, work is a necessary evil, a nuisance to be dispensed with as briskly as possible before turning to the serious business of life – drinking, nibbling tapas, hanging out with friends until the small hours.
At one point she noticed that a line of wines was not selling as briskly as expected.
A war, unless it were to be concluded as briskly as was the much easier task of subduing Afghanistan, would carry the risk of alienating Europe and Russia, rattling the tacit global consensus behind the anti-terrorist fight, and provoking an attack on Israel.
For a band that has exploited the whims of style as briskly as Phoenix, this rings of self-conflicted social critique, though it's neither critical nor conflicted enough.
Encouraged, he went on to tell a story that involved a night long ago at Le Bec-Fin, a woman passed out on the floor and a man who wanted her carted off to the hospital as briskly as possible so that he could enjoy his delectable meal in peace.
Early reports had suggested, as Fortune notes, that the iPhone 5c might not be selling quite as briskly as the 5s.
At Theatre West, on a pretty set by David Offner, Arden Teresa Lewis directs with a light hand, cutting back the original army of a cast to a not inconsiderable 18, playing up the funniest exchanges and marching as briskly as possible through the cumbersome plot (which even so begins to drag in the third hour).
Paradegoers waved American flags, street vendors hawked Obama paraphernalia — which was not selling nearly as briskly as in 2009 — and the streets downtown, closed to cars, became a sea of (mostly polite) humanity.
