The game itself was switching swiftly from end-to-end without either side creating clear-cut chances.

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Nonetheless, behind the shuffling and the bluster, skilled negotiators began from the start to work out quietly how the odyssey could end successfully, even swiftly.

ECONOMIST: Faster towards what?

And yet every American president is implored upon entering office to bring the quarrel swiftly to an end.

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