Word: outrun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WPPSS's troubles are the result of more than a decade of misjudgments. In the early 1970s, when it appeared that the demand for electricity would outrun supply, WPPSS started construction on three nuclear plants and later added two more. The agency, though, was unable to cope with such enormous projects, and deadlines began slipping and expenses ballooning. By 1982 the total cost of the development had leaped to $23.8 billion, more than five times the original estimate. The first plant is not scheduled for completion until 1984, seven years later than expected. Making the situation even worse, energy...
Nobody was surprised. Not even Beardsley. "He has superior leg speed, so he was able to outrun me," said the second place finisher. "There's no doubt, he's one of the best in the world...
...enough to wear a man's pants." On executive skirts: "Ordinary gestures like sitting on a low sofa or stepping over a puddle become difficult." On high heels: "The halting tiptoe gait they produce is thought provocative-perhaps because it guarantees that no woman wearing them can outrun a man who is chasing her." On edible underwear: "If clothes were words, these would be like talking with your mouth full." Such insights are the constructs of fiction rather than the battlements of feminism. Lurie, after all, is neither psychologist nor sociologist; she remains a novelist...
...Mirrors at Versailles. But when the French liner burned and capsized at its Manhattan dock in 1942, it was not so much its beauty that was mourned as the loss of one of the fastest passenger ships ever built, then being refitted as an Allied troop transport that could outrun any U-boat. In Normandie Triangle (Arbor House; 475 pages; $13.95), Novelist Justin Scott evokes the grace and power of the great ship even as he describes its destruction and welds an ambitious Nazi stratagem to the smoldering hulk...
...booters were bruised or tired from the hard-fought Ivy matches at Princeton, they surely didn't show it, using their superior ball control skills to dominate the scrappy Eagles for most of the contest. While Harvard didn't outrun the psyched-up visitors (who were playing in their first Eastern Tournament ever), the nation's eighth ranked eleven simply outexecuted the Eagles on the plays--corner kicks, direct kicks, throw-ins--that often make the difference in close tournament competition...