Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voting technology speeded the Cambridge City Council and School Committee elections yesterday, allowing instant result tabulation last night and simplifying the city's notoriously byzantine voting system...
...little piece of software that does all the work," Howard Fain, a Cambridge resident who was involved in bringing computerized voting to Cambridge, said of the PRMaster program which enabled the instant tabulation...
...when Foale entered the spherical transfer node that connects the main module to Soyuz and the four other modules, he felt and heard a sudden, sickening thud. Somewhere on the outside of one of the station's modules, Progress had hit fast and hard. An instant later, a deafening Klaxon went off, a signal that Mir's electronic brain was also aware of the impact...
...ground, this was good news. One degree was a small enough drift for mission control to correct remotely. Bypassing Mir's unconscious computer system, the controllers sent up a command instructing the station's engines to light. An instant later they did, and the groaning old spaceliner came slowly to a stop...
...years ago, Griffin was brushing her teeth one night when... "Bam! It all came together." Of course, she had 30 years of experience teaching in public schools, but in that instant, she saw the way a school should work: teams of teachers helping students learn by themselves, a thematic curriculum, extended days, classes without bells, a three-year relationship between the students and their advisers. At the time, Griffin was working for a school that spurned her ideas. But in April 1995 she was hired to take over Olson, a 30-year-old building on Minneapolis' north side that...