Approval by all 15 members came swiftly Friday night.
The manual recount was progressing smoothly and swiftly Saturday in most parts of the state, with new votes being recorded for both Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush.
The arrest stunned many in Red Lake, where gossip spread swiftly Monday evening among the 5,000 residents of the reservation, most of whom know one another and say they know Mr. Jourdain's son.
ATHENS — The Greek government moved swiftly Tuesday to shore up its unraveling cabinet ahead of crucial talks with its international lenders, appointing a new finance minister with vast economic experience whose main aim is to keep Greece within the euro zone.
WASHINGTON — Even with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi still on the run, the nations that aided Libya's rebellion moved swiftly Thursday to release billions of dollars of cash needed for the difficult — and, for some foreign companies, potentially lucrative — task of rebuilding the country after six months of fighting.
The European Union moved swiftly Sunday with offers of financial support to shore up its ties with the emerging government in Ukraine, but diplomats were keeping a wary eye on Moscow, which has fought hard to maintain its hold over the former Soviet state.
The Senate voted swiftly Monday night to kill new House legislation tying further government funding to the Republicans' latest hit on President Obama's health care law, sending a spending bill free of policy prescriptions back to the House less than an hour after the House approved it.
— Michigan State University trustees moved swiftly Thursday to end the fraught tenure of the school's interim president, accepting his immediate resignation, naming the school's third leader in a year and pledging to erase a campus culture that allowed a university physician to sexually abuse dozens of girls and women.
BERLIN — Germany's new finance minister, the veteran conservative politician Wolfgang Schäuble, moved swiftly Sunday to assert his power and tell his compatriots and the world that the finances of the largest European economy were dire and would take years to mend.
Rubio moved swiftly Tuesday to redirect the party's establishment money to him alone.
