Word: slower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second varsity boat was unable to surpass the Quakers and the Midshipmen, finishing five seconds behind the winning Penn boat and less than a second slower than Navy. The first freshman boat was able to defeat Navy, but it couldn't keep up with Penn, which won easily by 10 seconds...
Much of the tournament was played in pouring rain which made the croquet court much slower, Sacerdote and Soler said...
Ordinarily, a body the size of Io should have cooled off long ago, making volcanoes impossible. But for every pass the moon makes around Jupiter, it makes several passes by its large, slower-orbiting sister moons: Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Every time Io does that, the gravitational tug of these nearby satellites gives it a twang. On Earth, the gravity of just one moon is sufficient to cause the oceans to rise and fall in great crashing tides. On Io, the gravitational influence of three nearby moons is enough to distort the shape of the world itself, causing...
...Navy and the Air Force have regularly rewritten their tactical manuals to keep up with the rapid technological advances of the past 25 years, but the Army has been slower to adapt. Now it is trying to make up for lost time. The two-week Mojave war game, which is testing an elaborate new command-and-control system and 72 new pieces of hardware, is the Army's biggest push yet to boot up, log on and march in the information revolution...
...software bugs new to other vendors. But, this latest scare has manifested in the security (or lack thereof) of the sacred World Wide Web, and it may just cause all of us to surf a little slower from...