Paul Keating delivered his Redfern speech, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its final report and the issues raised in both were acknowledged and swiftly consigned to the past, as if acknowledgement alone had fixed the problem.
In recent weeks, Haden has faced criticism for not acting more swiftly, especially after Sarkisian acknowledged mixing alcohol with medication before the "Salute to Troy" pep rally in August.
In December 1970, "Congratulations" songwriters Bill Martin and Phil Coulter claimed for royalties, with the result that the composer's credit for Harrison's track was swiftly changed to acknowledge Martin and Coulter.
Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the players' union, intervened swiftly and Frank Clark, the manager of Forest, acknowledged the implications right from the start.
In an interview over matzo ball soup, Ms. Quan, who speaks so swiftly that her sentences sometimes tumble into each other, acknowledged sympathies for the protesters.
But it is a truth universally acknowledged (on Fleet Street) that grief is more swiftly abated if it involves a sixth stage: randomly blaming a celebrity.
In a statement Sir John acknowledged that the "Service's failure to act more swiftly when Gareth first became absent from work has contributed to the anguish and suffering of his family.
But she also acknowledged that she failed to anticipate the waves of volunteers swiftly arriving in Lower Manhattan.
The point is made not to be difficult about Reyes, but to acknowledge how swiftly time flies in sports, how quickly the window of opportunity can close.
When she wonders, thinking back, if a crucial act "hadn't been purely personal, aimed against Minette Swift as an individual, and not 'racist,' " she must also acknowledge "how swiftly and crudely the personal becomes the racial".
