Word: sped
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...couldn't start Ed Begley's environmentally safe electric car! He hastened over to them and gave them instructions. "They never get it right!" he said good-naturedly. "They always forget the code..." Finally the metallic silver car was roused from its standby mode and Begley and his wife sped off silently, looking like the Jetsons headed home after a night at the Oscars...
...markets sped up their stampede, driving the Dow into official "bear" territory and testing new 9,200 lows with a 250-point morning slide as the selling continued to spread beyond tech into Old Economy blue-chips. TIME senior economics reporter Bernie Baumohl checks the numbers and assesses the current state of things economic...
Result: the second beam was compressed more than 100 millionfold in length and "stored" in the form of altered energy states and spin patterns in the atoms. When the triggering beam was turned back on, the light was reconstituted and sped...
...smiled back, and now there was definite chatter. Some kids who had never slackened their pace were by now rounding the corner towards the Science Center's exit. I felt a little guilty about the break of levity--it was probably better to be safe than sorry--so I sped up again...
...haven't received complaints, and we've sped up the network [since the limitation]," said Franklin M. Steen, director of FAS computer services...