As always for Heineken Cup matches, ticket sales had been brisk leading up to the match and the packed press benches indicated a high level of interest in the game as English accents threatened to outnumber those of the local media corps.
Few were better at the brisk summing-up and the clear, no-nonsense decision.
As single-core handsets go, this one was quite brisk, loaded up with a 1GHz MTK 6575 CPU buffered by 1GB RAM that handled the mostly stock version of Android 4.0.4 with ease.
Determined to run at least a little of the course, I started as I knew I wouldn't be able to go on for long, jogging until the crowd thinned out and I could take up the brisk walking pace I hoped would get me back to the stadium before the street cleaners moved in to sweep the course.
In 1990 growth remained relatively brisk in emerging economies, propping up exports from the rich world.
Research by Arthur Kramer, a professor in the department of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has shown that when sedentary aging adults, ages 58 to 78, take up a regimen of brisk walking they can improve their ability to ignore distractions.
Luckily for the king, traffic was brisk at Graceland this year, making up for the lost revenue from the show.
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But "to this day, 'Thatcherism' is used all over the world to describe a brisk, unsentimental, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps approach, " he writes.
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The pace was brisk after that, with both teams racing up and down the ice with a few scoring chances.
The six partners in the enterprise take turns to open up in the evenings, where they do a brisk business, often to regular customers.
The brisk start saw the unit gain after a February producer price report highlighted a pick-up in the pace of input costs to a 6.6% pace compared with one year ago.
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The internals provided plenty of power to keep the P3 humming along at a brisk pace during our brief time with it, but we make no guarantees once you start loading up tons of poorly coded apps.
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It does a brisk trade in cappuccinos and cafe lattes, and is perfect for a mid-morning pick-me up.
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