Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides recognizing the obvious threats to the environment and human life, the committee also noted that nuclear satellites would speed up the militarization of space. There seems to be little, if any, civilian use for nuclear power in orbit--it is too dangerous and too expensive...
...consumers have not rushed to gain this edge in speed or convenience. Of the 3.3 million U.S. homes equipped with computers and modems, only 95,000 subscribe to one of 41 different home-banking systems. Many who tried home banking complained that the software was often bug-ridden, difficult to use and slow. Moreover, inexplicable delays -- sometimes lasting weeks -- cropped up between the time customers ordered bills paid and the arrival of the payments...
...with the speed of light, where speed itself...
...almost everything written by Ian Fleming. The boy's doomed mother Maria is not merely an eyeful, she has a "passion for beautiful things and more than enough money to indulge it . . . Coco Chanel suits, tea roses, the best restaurants, jazz, and driving her Bugatti at a reckless speed...
...course. Having completed the Salterton and Deptford trilogies, Davies, 75, is by now adept at welcoming latecomers to his entertainments and making them feel right at home. He gracefully provides enough information about what has happened in the two preceding novels to keep everyone, including forgetful fans, up to speed. But he is also solicitous toward those who have been present and paying attention from the beginning; the plot and characters of The Lyre of Orpheus gain resonances from the earlier books that only initiates will hear...