Thomas's account, the second volume of a planned trilogy, is marked by swift storytelling and incisive, sometimes wry characterizations.
During the panel discussion, Ondocsin, and his colleagues Dan Ciccarone, professor of family and community medicine at UCSF and Sarah Mars, project director for their research, presented initial findings on geographic "hotspots" marked by swift changes in heroin markets.
To help dancers with speed, the school includes instruction in the technique of August Bournonville, the Danish ballet master whose style is marked by radiant jumps, swift footwork and a sense of lightness.
The public response was swift and marked by moral outrage.
The robbery was marked by meticulous planning, inside information and swift execution — 8 armed men in 11 minutes — that left investigators marveling.
Some 400 drug-dealers are executed each year in the province: national and international anti-drug days are marked by an orgy of public condemnations in Kunming stadiums, followed by swift execution in private.
The theory is that government assistance encourages a debilitating "culture of poverty," marked by laziness, promiscuity and addiction, and curable only by a swift cessation of benefits.
At diners, firehouses, town squares and a crawfish festival, they promised swift, bold changes in a financial crisis marked by choking debt, recurring deficits and grim choices between cutting services and raising taxes.
"Marco revealed Kublai Khan's splendid realm not as a static, remote fantasyland populated by savages," Bergreen writes, "but as a vital state constantly on the alert for danger — an empire that never slept, where swift messengers moved by night if necessary, their way marked by reassuring rows of trees and lit by flickering torchlight".
Instead his tenure was marked by a bizarre bout of denialism over the appalling scale of the HIV/Aids crisis and the swift descent into a power struggle with his deputy president, Mr Zuma.
While the response to Katrina was marked by slow progress at the city, state and federal levels, the response to the quake, nearly a century before, had been, swift, forceful and somewhat reckless.
