Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parliament is loath to give up its traditional supremacy over the courts, which would happen if judges were allowed to declare laws unconstitutional. Another is the sheer slowness of change in Britain. But after his success at Strasbourg, Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans promised to do his best to speed it along. If the Sunday Times, closed since Nov. 30 in a dispute with its printers, ever resumes publishing, Evans says he intends to challenge the contempt laws by reporting on important cases under trial...
Nonetheless, Spectacular Bid may have the speed and poise to overcome his jockey's uneven performances. "He just glides," reports Franklin. "I'm sitting on a Rolls-Royce." The horse will have only two serious rivals in the Derby: Flying Paster, the three-year-old California champion, and General Assembly, the first Secretariat colt to reach Derby status. Flying Paster lost but one race this spring, to a colt carrying 8 Ibs. less weight. General Assembly ran twice against Spectacular Bid last year and twice was soundly beaten. Eddie Arcaro admires the colt's delicate skill...
Growth might well speed up even further if Washington would strip away its remaining regulations. Cable TV still faces bewilderingly complex rules on the duration of its franchises, how rapidly a company must wire an area after it has swung a franchise, and other matters...
...turned out, the substitutions proved to be just what the doctor ordered, as the Radcliffe boat benefitted from the extra power. "We picked up a lot of speed, with the addition of those girls," Kirk said...
...slow pacing. Given enough time to dwell on the frothiness of the whole thing, many audiences might become wearied with the obvious foolishness of Dr. Pangloss and company. To guard against such a reaction, Director George Hamlin has turned Candide into a three-ring circus that moves at the speed of light. The set sprawls the width of the theater, using the balconies over the theater entrance and a walkway that cuts through the 30 or 40 seats in the pit. Actors appear from every door in the theater, sometimes exiting stage right to appear moments later in the balcony...