Word: preciousness
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...begins with a 30-m sprint before the slider dives onto the 90-cm sled to hurtle around 15 steeply banked curves of the 1,500-m course. And without any mechanism for steering, sliders can control their descent only by shifting hips and shoulders. They risk losing precious 100ths of a second if they touch...
...Friday afternoon in June, four months after his liberation and with precious little accomplished, Sanders leaned back in a chair and took a deep pull off a crack pipe. Nothing he had done since his release had felt more familiar. He had spent the day helping an acquaintance move, then wound up in the empty living room as a crack pipe was passed around. He declined on the first round. The next time he reached out. The first hit is always free...
...iMac, which TIME took for an exclusive test run recently and which will be unveiled at the annual Macworld convention in San Francisco this week, could be just the thing. Like many PCs today, the new iMac is built around a flat-panel display. But instead of taking up precious desk space like a typical flat monitor, the iMac's 15-in. screen floats in the air, attached to a jointed, chrome-pipe neck. It's also rimmed by a "halo," a translucent plastic frame that makes you want to pull it toward you--or push...
...important thing is that the precious Harvard tradition is bigger than Summers, myself or any of us,” was all West would...
...Many contrasted Bush with his predecessor: "President Bush has brought dignity and morality back to the position of President of the United States";"the world's only remaining superpower is not having to waste precious time contemplating what 'is' is."; "understands that the presidency and the country are not about him. No scandals, no impeachments, no stain." Nor was the praise confined to Republicans: "I'm not a Bush fan, I voted for Gore, but clearly President Bush is the Person of the Year." And if some already put him in the presidential pantheon ("His leadership has inspired this country...