Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first law of gardening is not speed or efficiency but patience. Everything will come in its own time; just as spring follows winter, the first ! crocuses the first thaw. This is not an easy law to learn for people who think that everything can be bought. In the garden, virtually nothing can be bought, except a good shovel and good seeds, and time follows its own imperative. The second law, more subtle but no less important, is the value of proportion, of balance, what the French call mesure. Ideally, any gardener would like to serve nature, to participate and share...
...latest F-20 revelations come at a bad time for Northrop. The company, long a target of Government probes into bribery charges, is under pressure from the Pentagon to improve the workmanship on its $46 billion Stealth-bomber project and to speed up the delivery of guidance devices for its MX missile. Now Northrop must answer a round of new questions about one of its old mistakes...
...spoke movingly of creating low-cost "learning environments," in which university students, using computer simulations, would have access to the world's most advanced technologies. "You'd offer a physics student a personal linear accelerator or a ride on a train going the speed of light," he told a group of educators in 1986. "You'd take a biochemistry student and let him experiment in a $5 million DNA wet lab. You'd send a student of 17th century history back to the time of Louis XIV. Next year we will introduce a breakthrough computer ten to 20 times more...
...SPEED-THE-PLOW. Playwright turned Filmmaker David Mamet returns to Broadway and skewers Hollywood. Singer Madonna stars as a temp secretary with big plans...
...chairman's 579 recommendations add up to a bold plan for action that could cost $3 billion. In a preliminary report released last February, the commission called for hundreds of new treatment centers for intravenous drug users, home care for AIDS patients and a streamlined federal approval process to speed up the delivery of experimental AIDS drugs. In the latest document, Watkins went further and emphasized two measures that the Reagan Administration has stiffly opposed: new federal antidiscrimination laws to protect those infected with the AIDS virus from loss of jobs, insurance and housing, and new confidentiality statutes to ensure...