Word: fastest
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...particular, the new 755 will incorporate the 750's brilliant 10.4-inch active matrix screen technology as well as integrated audio for multimedia applications. Buyers of the 755 will be able to outfit their machine with either Intel's 50 MHz 486DX2 or 75 MHz 486DX4 microprocessors, the fastest of their kind...
...fastest-growing charge cards are the ones that automatically deduct money from checking accounts. The amounts riding on such debit-card use could zoom nearly 600% over the next eight years, according to H. Spencer Nilson of the Nilson Report, an Oxnard, California, newsletter that follows this industry.While Visa's credit-card business grew 16% last year, the use of its "CheckCard" debit service jumped 47%, as consumers sought to avoid finance and interest charges...
...warfare between government troops and rebels entered its fourth week, a shaky cease-fire collapsed, and savage fighting erupted again in the capital, Kigali. In what U.N. workers described as the biggest and fastest exodus they had ever seen, more than 250,000 people poured into neighboring Tanzania. By late Friday, lines at the border stretched for five miles. In New York City U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali urged the Security Council to reconsider its decision to withdraw most of its forces and asked that peacekeepers be permitted to use force to prevent further massacres similar to those...
...beaten all the crews we've beaten and lost to all the crews we've lost to," heavyweight captain Tilde Hajek said. "We want to win this race and reclaim the title of fastest [female] crew on the Charles River...
...Violence directed against employers or former employers is the fastest- growing category of workplace violence," says Joseph Kinney, executive director of the National Safe Workplace Institute in Chicago. And deaths are only the worst outcome of the problem: a 1993 survey by Northwestern National Life Insurance suggests that more than 2 million employees suffer physical attacks on the job each year and more than 6 million are threatened in some way. "They run the gamut from anonymous love letters on secretaries' desks to feces smeared on men's room walls to death threats sent to CEOs' homes to workers talking...