Word: fasters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...from announcing a 4 trillion renminbi ($587 billion) stimulus package, repeatedly lowering interest rates and taking substantive moves to bolster the property market and encourage consumer spending. "They've done everything right so far and very fast," says one western diplomat in Beijing. "Often it's been bigger and faster than other countries like Germany, and they aren't afraid to advertise that fact in the papers and on CCTV...
...traditions are set by Scripture or laced with superstition; others are accidents elevated into ceremony, habits in party clothes. A Woody Allen character viewed tradition as "the illusion of permanence," but I think that's exactly wrong; our traditions are a ballast against inventions and innovations that blow us faster into a future we have not prepared for. (See TIME's Person of the Year, People Who Mattered, and more...
...very disappointing,” Stone said. “UConn played well. They took advantage of their opportunity…and we had multiple chances. Now I just think we need to get our confidence back.” “We were definitely faster than them, but they played us better as a team overall,” Vaillancourt said. “They were more aggressive. You could tell that they wanted it more...
...work on using my full approach more this season to get higher jumps.” Senior Brittan Smith finished a very competitive women’s 60-meter dash in fourth place, registering a time of 7.93 in the finals, more than a tenth of a second faster than her preliminary run. In the women’s 60-meter hurdles, senior Shannon Flahive and freshman Christine Reed finished third and seventh, respectively, with times of 9.12 and 9.59. Flahive also tallied a second-place finish in the 200-meter dash, with classmate Favia Merritt close behind in third...
...Zalathal went faster and faster. It seemed as though the staircase would never end. Felicity thought her breasts would spin off into the fiery void of their own accord. And then there was Frederick, only a few feet away, his pale, wan face upturned and shocked, his watery eyes bulging and mouth gaping like a trout, and still Zalathal did not stop. Felicity charged over her husband. She heard the triumphant crunch of bone, the satisfying curtailment of her husband’s prayer as Zalathal’s powerful hoofs crushed his throat...