Indeed, the Hong Kong government moved swiftly today to crack down.
Acting swiftly today, investigators obtained warrants and searched businesses and homes in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Florida.
A government spokesman, Christos Protopappas, reacted swiftly today, saying that Mr. Niles was a "liar" and called his allegations "tales and fictional scenarios".
House Republicans moved swiftly today to transform President Bush's energy plan into legislation as a committee for the first time endorsed the White House plan to drill for oil in an Arctic wildlife refuge.
Bush White House officials moved swiftly today to save the nomination of Theodore B. Olson to be solicitor general, pressing Republicans in the Senate to offer concessions to the Democrats.
Britain and pro-British Protestant political leaders of Ulster moved swiftly today to capitalize on the long-awaited decision by the Irish Republican Army to begin dismantling its weapons.
Israel retaliated swiftly today after Palestinians killed six Israelis on Saturday, including three soldiers who were shot in the Gaza Strip during the boldest and deadliest raid on an Israeli Army base in the 11-month-old conflict.
The Gore campaign moved swiftly today to address these worries, dispatching two black cabinet secretaries, Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater and Labor Secretary Alexis M. Herman, and other prominent black Democrats to declare their strong support for Mr. Lieberman.
President-elect George W. Bush moved swiftly today to replace his initial selection for labor secretary, naming a less outspoken conservative, Elaine L. Chao, who was an official in his father's administration.
Prosecutors at Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial moved swiftly today to try to show that the ousted Yugoslav leader knew or should have known of the actions of his underlings, did nothing and therefore bears responsibility for any atrocities they committed.
The party and nation that Hafez al-Assad ruled for 30 years until his death this weekend moved swiftly today to anoint his son Bashar as Syria's new president, raising prospects that at least the nominal trappings of power in the highly militarized state may pass peacefully to a new generation.
