Taxi drivers, who rely on curbside stops, seemed confident about their abilities to avoid tickets by discharging passengers speedily, though they worried about drawn-out credit-card transactions, especially if the customer is distracted, talking on a cellphone.
Tiny streams of water were running speedily though the gutters and drain basins meant to protect the homes from floods and to ease the risk of mudslides like the ones that crashed through this Los Angeles suburb earlier this year.
Only three exploratory oil wells were drilled in 2011, down from more than 20 in 2005.The bill, signed and sealed by Mr Jonathan and his cabinet, is back in parliament; the president wants it speedily passed, though its original aims have been watered down, and many oil companies say its monetary terms will deter investment.
Though passengers arriving from Frankfurt passed speedily through customs at Kennedy Airport in New York, they said that in Germany the security was intensified.
It loads speedily and can be learned easily and played quickly (though mastery is another matter).
Alarmingly, it's looking as if we may have to confront an elephant head-on but, thankfully, I manage to avert such a disaster by employing a particular tactic known as Speedily Changing The Subject Even Though It Makes You Seem Mad.
It moved speedily and with a smooth assurance, as though it had been born to the task, and I wondered to whom it could belong.
Highland Fling and Christmas Pudding, in particular, were written speedily, against a backdrop of anxiety about money (though aristocratic, Mitford was not rich) and romantic confusion.
Compared to the "revolutionary" composers in Balakirev's circle, Rimsky-Korsakov found those in the Belyayev circle to be "progressive... attaching as it did great importance to technical perfection, but... also broke new paths, though more securely, even if less speedily...."....
The most the terrorists can hope for is to hurt the notoriously nervy tourist trade (though after the first Bali bomb, tourists speedily returned).
Anyone who has tried switching banks will know that it is not a straightforward process, even though mobile phone providers can manage it speedily.
