Leslie Moonves, the CBS president, underscored the contrast in the negotiations in a memo he sent to CBS employees noting that the deal with FiOS was "reached swiftly and amicably in just a few days".
The CBI director-general, Richard Lambert, said business "needs stability and wants to see a clear decision reached swiftly, which delivers a stable new government".He added: "The UK's route to economic recovery needs to be firmly established".
If that long arm does aim to reach out to tap Cardinal Dolan on the shoulder so as to ask a few questions, it had best reach swiftly.
Nonetheless he reached out swiftly to the Socialists and, a bit less swiftly, to Santiago Carrillo's Communists; and in 1980 he even pushed for a new divorce law, though complaining that Opus Dei, to which he had been close, were "all over" him.
"In the event that officers are required, we need calls to reach us swiftly.
In cases of emergency or acute distress, patients or their relatives may be unable to digest information; yet doctors need to reach decisions swiftly.
Though strikes did take place, they did not paralyze the entire industry, and an agreement was reached fairly swiftly after the strikes began.
Abandoned as a girl after her father left home, Bina, pictured above, was forced to live with her grandfather – who, once she reached 14, swiftly pushed her into an arranged marriage.
"I truly believe that we should not treat Russia as a handicapped person," he said in response to the suggestion that Russia cannot be expected to reach democracy swiftly after decades of Communism.
He said: "To make this opportunity a reality, we need to reach agreement swiftly.
Obama also urged the IMF to reach agreement swiftly on a financial support package for Kiev, which would unlock additional aid from the European Union and Washington.
