Mr. Tarar (Pakistan) said that his Government appreciated the alacrity with which UNHCR had responded to the earthquake in Pakistan.

We need to make sure that we're a little bit suspicious, that we understand that optimism is in the DNA of the military, that we don't respond to it with quite as much alacrity.

I would not be so sure. The main problem is that the Fed has not moved with alacrity to implement fully key provisions of the Dodd Frank financial reforms, which were passed in 2010.

US Secretary of State John Kerry s heat of the moment comment that a military strike on Syria could be avoided if all chemical weapons were turned over was a diplomatic gift to Russia, and it responded with alacrity. Not usually noted for its diplomatic dexterity, the Kremlin quickly proposed compelling Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime to join the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), and to place its chemical weapons stockpile under United Nations control.

The ECB should act with greater alacrity not because there are increased prospects for future growth, but for the opposite reason the fear that European growth will slow, thus limiting the possibility for future rate hikes. Indeed, even before the sudden downturn in the US economy, a growing number of members of the ECB s Governing Council already had come to the conclusion that accelerating the pace of interest rate increases was needed if its goal of monetary neutrality was to be achieved.