Word: outrun
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...world hostage. Private scientists might produce gene-altering chemicals. Almost any handyman can assemble a plastique weapon aimed at a Prime Minister or a whole city block. It is almost a natural consequence that in fiction, the old-line security bureaucracies, from CIA to KGB to M16, are being outrun by freelancers...
Julie herself admits that the team's cohesiveness, in addition to their superior fitness which helps them outrun most other teams, and their coaching, has been a vital factor in the team's phenomenal 11-0 success. Naturally she takes no credit for that cohesiveness, emphasizing that it derives from the dedication of each individual member of the team...
...only on-court enemy was herself: she rattled easily, making unforced errors, while her concentration wandered. Still she climbed into the top ten on the strength of undisciplined talent, and at age 18 found that her zest for the life of the world class star she was becoming had outrun the indulgence of Czech authorities...
...showed a small but welcome budget surplus, and according to Putnam the Harvard portfolio is one of the most well-managed and carefully-watched of al university portfolios. The current annual rate of return on the market value of Harvard's endowment is 5.2 per cent, which may not outrun inflation, but is still considered respectable in institutional circles...
...Austrian mountains, and read. But, he said of the dilemma that caught him between fighting in a war that was morally wrong and the obligation he felt to his country and to his middle-western, middle-class parents: "My single philosophical tenet is that you can't outrun your sense of obligation--even in imagination. It's always there...