Most patients with leukaemia have pallor, fatigue, with perhaps easy bruising, and as long as a blood count is performed reasonably swiftly, no diagnostic improvement is possible.
But while machines can perform tasks swiftly and accurately, only humans can work with purpose, calling to mind what Aristotle referred to as "telos," a sense of intention, significance, and meaning.
The then Labour PM swiftly performed a humiliating penance, travelling to Mrs Duffy's house in Rochdale to apologise.
If an action is inapt, performing it more swiftly does not augment its benevolence.
Few other athletes, men or women, have come back so swiftly after a trauma and performed as exquisitely as Kerrigan did.
Besides bringing the assailants to justice, the Police Department needs to determine as swiftly as possible which officers performed honorably and which did not.
In routine practice, cytologic examination results of CSF are obtained swiftly and PCR indication is performed as a second step.
The SSO were swiftly adopted by upper-class philanthropists and performed for the King at a Buckingham Palace garden party.
But Michael J. Ryan, the board's executive director, said that anecdotal evidence suggested the lever machines performed well, and that technicians were able to respond swiftly to problems.
Why the plane plunged so swiftly — whether it was the ice, or how the crew performed or how the airplane's systems performed — has not been determined, and may not be for some time.
