Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public relations firm, so that she could spend more time with her six-year-old son. Says Gillis, author of the 1984 book Entrepreneurial Mothers: "I was willing to spin my wheels for a while and grow my company slowly while my son was small. Now it's full speed ahead...
Traumatic injuries -- including violent accidents, shootings and stabbings -- are the leading cause of death among Americans between the ages of one and 44. The bleeding and shock that frequently ensue demand a degree of speed and precision not often available in most hospital emergency rooms. Experts believe that of the more than 140,000 Americans who are killed by traumatic injuries each year, at least 25,000 die needlessly because they do not receive the proper care in time...
Elements of the design are as old as powered flight itself. The original Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer was of the canard type, with a pair of horizontal stabilizers mounted in front of the pilot. Though the shape had certain advantages in slow-speed flight -- it was highly resistant to stalls -- it proved too unstable at high speeds, and was eventually abandoned in favor of aircraft with stabilizers fixed to their tails. Now, with computers available to design planes and with fly-by-wire controls to help steer them, Beech and ) Piaggio have revived the original concept...
...Starship's rear-facing propellers push rather than pull it through the air. A pair of 7-ft. tip sails, fitted to the end of each wing, serve as vertical stabilizers and help reduce aerodynamic drag. The forward-mounted canards swivel back during high-speed flight to further reduce drag and are equipped with elevators that eliminate the need for a tail. Beech is keeping the Starship's performance characteristics secret, but early reports suggest it can reach cruising speeds approaching those of business jets at about 40% the fuel cost of a Gates Learjet or a Cessna Citation...
Under Scalise the speed-oriented Crimson captured its first Eastern Championship in 1988 behind sprinters Mia Costello and Linda Suhs...