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Education isn't a quick remedy for America's economic ailments, even at quick-acting community colleges.

Demand Tests Two-Year Colleges David Wessel 2010

Monetary policy is quick-acting and historically reliable for the government to use as a short-run tool; and thankfully it's cheap for private citizens to monitor even if the timing of its effects isn't perfect; and it's easy to model.

Kydland and Prescott win Nobel, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Although only last week, after Gawker outed up-and-coming New York Congressman Christopher Lee, he resigned--demonstrating just how quick-acting the career poison of public revelations of sexual motives is, still today.

Marian Salzman: The Online Erogenous Zone Marian Salzman 2011

Although only last week, after Gawker outed up-and-coming New York Congressman Christopher Lee, he resigned--demonstrating just how quick-acting the career poison of public revelations of sexual motives is, still today.

Marian Salzman: The Online Erogenous Zone Marian Salzman 2011

The elimination of the troublesome Catholic exile Reginald Pole was an idea cooked up by Wyatt and others in 1539; some ciphered letters remain, and some loose talk about the efficacy of quick-acting "Spanish poison", but it was more of a notional chess move than a genuine plot and nothing came of it.

The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review 2011

They must be eating something poisonous, but it would have to be a quick-acting poison, since they are dying in small areas.

Apocalypse now? Mystery bird deaths hit Louisiana 2011

If the toxin was quick-acting, he would be dead or possibly paralyzed before he escaped.

Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

It's tough to secure funding to study the effects of salvia divinorum, the intense, quick-acting and legal hallucinogenic plant growing in popularity among U.S. teenagers.

Study Uses YouTube To Examine Effect Of 'Salvia' Drug (VIDEO) 2010

This is a quick-acting, depolarizing, paralytic drug that, by rendering Mabhouh incapable of resisting, could account for the lack of bruise marks on the body.

More Questions About the Dubai Assassination Edward Jay Epstein 2010

This is a quick-acting, depolarizing, paralytic drug that, by rendering Mabhouh incapable of resisting, could account for the lack of bruise marks on the body.

More Questions About the Dubai Assassination Edward Jay Epstein 2010