Word: fasters
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...contrary. Computers didn't invent things like flawed program trading - people did. Program trading simply followed algorithms that people wrote. So while a computer may help make dumb decisions happen faster, I think putting the blame on computers when they've been such a driver of productivity is a mistake. Taking junk mortgages and calling them triple A, that's not a physicist's or a computer scientist's decision, that's somebody who is trying to pitch something...
Eventually, Brown's wife drove up the avenue after completing her morning mission: delivering wheelchairs to precincts where exhausted and disabled voters might need them. Brown loaded his chair into the car and climbed aboard. His journey was, in the end, faster than he had expected. - By Karen Ball / Kansas City...
...than doubled to just over a half a trillion dollars, which is nearly a record. Bank lending is up, but Yardeni says that much of the measured increase comes from financial firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley being recategorized as banks. "Banks are piling up liquid assets much faster than they are making loans," says Yardeni. "And that's not a good thing...
...jump in pace. We have an extremely fast group of kids out on the ice, which we’ve been very fortunate to have over the years,” Stone says. “This year’s no different, and we might even be faster than we were a year ago. That alone, getting used to playing at that pace, is going to be a transition for all of them,” she adds.Lok was a member of the British Columbia Winter Games Zone team and played in both the Canada Winter Games...
...Among Ohio's white males, meanwhile, Obama appears to be falling faster: they now favor McCain by a 14-point margin, 56% to 42%. Just a week earlier, Obama was 10 points behind with this group. Joe Wurzelbacher (a.k.a. Joe the Plumber), who has come to represent something of a mascot or rallying cry for the McCain campaign, hails from a suburb of Toledo, Ohio...