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Word: speeded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...various factors involved are poor teaching abilities, consisting of inability to use the English language, poor communication abilities, and covering difficult topics with a speed that is appropriate only for the abilities of graduate students, if even they would be able to follow some of the presentations that have been delivered in this past week of classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Math Problems | 10/5/1988 | See Source »

...possible to foresee a deal that would meet those conditions. The U.S. still retains billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets, and Iran is pressing claims to them before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in the Hague. The U.S. could offer to speed up those proceedings without making an outright dollars-for-hostages offer that would smack of ransom. Washington could also insist on release of the hostages as a precondition for normalizing diplomatic relations with Iran and easing its opposition to favorable treatment of Iran by bodies such as the International Monetary Fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy To Deal or Not to Deal | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...races around the oval-shaped wooden track, cyclists usually jockey for position until an opportune moment occurs to seize the lead and outsprint one's opponent to the finish. East Germany's Christa Rothenburger Luding, a speed-skating gold medalist in Calgary, depended upon legs made strong on ice to surge to another medal last week, a silver in the 1,000-meter match sprint. That made the 28-year-old physical-education student the first athlete ever to win a winter and summer medal in the same Olympic year. Luding missed achieving a pure gold winter-summer double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Shorts: Putting Her Hopes on Ice | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...coat, the husband of Britain's Princess Anne began the first stage of the grueling three-day equestrian event under a hard, wind-driven rain and placed a mediocre 28th out of 40. Phillips' lot did not improve on the second day: his mount Cartier failed to withstand the speed and endurance test on an obstacle course replete with bamboo hedges and water traps. At that point, the royal son-in-law withdrew from the competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Shorts:Winning on Charisma | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...always the same -- pure honor." The littlest mermaid sees everything in a race, but nobody can see her. She makes you want to fish her out of the surf somehow, and hoist her up some way, to uncover just what she really does and whether her high-speed rotary blades have twelve arms or only eight. Matt Biondi, the reluctant Mark Spitz, may have been wasting his time studying dolphins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners All! | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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