Historical pessimism moves in swiftly as a tide.
Then, as plainclothes agents in the restaurant gave the signal, special forces troops moved in, swiftly handcuffing Mr. Gotovina and his dinner companion and leading them away.
The agency moved in swiftly to transform IndyMac into a bridge bank, called the IndyMac Federal Bank, and the changeover went so smoothly that many depositors might not have even noticed.
Officers moved in swiftly at the slightest flare-up of lawbreaking and managed to contain demonstrations large and small with little violence, though many people complained that large numbers of bystanders had been unjustly arrested.
Witnesses said Israeli soldiers moved in swiftly, though several accounts gave most of the credit to an off-duty border police officer, identified as Eran David, who shot at least one and possibly both of the gunmen.
Guangzhou authorities moved in swiftly to establish a tight security presence.
When a small group of Nigerian Islamist militants attacked two police stations and killed an officer, government security forces moved in swiftly, announcing they had "crushed" the revolt.
The Obama administration hopes to try these people in US courts and wants to move ahead swiftly in the case against the 9/11 plane hijackers.
Several lawmakers and Democratic presidential candidates, including Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut and Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, have been clamoring for a more visible commission, urging it to move more swiftly in cleaning up the mutual fund industry in particular.
But there were flashes of something going on, most noticeably in the third movement of the "Italian" Symphony, where individual ideas in phrasing came gushing in swiftly moving currents.
