The worry that, in the absence of speedy transition, the system will revert to the old ways of central planning under Communism is misplaced.

My concern here is that there be a speedy transition of power with the minimum amount of bloodshed and disruption.

Mr. Abulahoum said the threat underscored the urgent need for a speedy transition.

This policy was designed as a cornerstone for a speedy transition from command economy to free-market economy.

I2WD is developing and integrating the critical technologies required to provide a speedy transition from the research phase to the field.

"A speedy transition to a market economy will meet powerful opposition," he said.

In addition, they provide for speedy transitions between various weights if one is doing multiple weights in quick succession.

That would suit Community Board 8, which passed a resolution urging the speedy transition to the Parks Department, said Denise Woodin, district manager.

But a speedy transition might bankrupt many industrial enterprises suddenly cut off from subsidies.

Mr. Constantinescu has stressed a speedier transition to capitalism, a term that Mr. Iliescu still avoids.