Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Project Team, which includes Huchra, made independent measurements of the relative distance of different galaxies as well as the speed at which they are moving away from the Earth...
...relation between an object's distance and the speed at which it is receding is represented by what astronomers call the Hubble constant. Discovery of the constant would lead to an estimate of the age of the universe...
...podium. "You have a problem, you call me and we fix it." Schrempp has been convinced all along that unless one side took the initiative, the union would fail. "I must have studied 50 mergers," says Schrempp. "And I learned that to avoid others' mistakes the only answer is speed, speed, speed...
...Speed kills careers. In the scrimmage between Germans and Americans for jobs, Schrempp lost his top legal counsel, a senior manufacturing executive and a handful of others. Dennis Pawley, the man who revolutionized Chrysler's manufacturing operations, retired as he had planned--even though Schrempp tried several times to change Pawley's mind. In February and March a series of top Chrysler executives defected to Ford and General Motors. Although company officials have downplayed the departures, they hurt; all were part of the winning team...
...overseas friendships. The Internet bombards us with more data than knowledge of how to make sense of them, and in certain parts of Los Angeles, 89% of the citizens at age 18 can't read. I am often to be found on street corners declaiming about the days before speed-of-light machines confined our minds to the space of a tiny screen and left us lost in terms of the big picture...