Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Schools from all over New England descended on Cambridge as the Crimson hosted its annual Harvard Invitational track meet. Though many of the Crimson athletes stayed off the track to act as scorekeepers and concession stand workers, Harvard challenged the invitees with its speed, agility and strength...
...trapped by mortgage payments, income taxes, marriage, alimony and/or dead end jobs. Adults seem to have less freedom than kids. Grown ups are like pin balls whose trajectories are defined by a series of obstacles that bounce them in a meaningless direction. After shooting out of college at high speed you slam into a four-figure monthly rent and you careen towards a career in I-banking. You're hit by 90-hour weeks, you fizzle out, lose steam, and drop into law school. There you bump into a nice guy, slide into marriage and emerge from law school with...
...huge effort over the last six months [to get computer systems up to speed], bringing the last pieces of it up to code in November," he says. "And in the unlikely event that the Holyoke Center has to close due to a problem with the gas, for example, UHS will have to close down, but arrangements have been made with area hospitals to take diverted emergency cases...
...swam against the same B.C. girl in both the 50 and finished second," McConnell said. "I knew she had a lot of early speed, so I was more confident in the 100. When I was able to hang with her in the first 25 meters, I knew I could beat...
...project picks up speed--team members predict that, having cleared this first hurdle, the remaining 22 chromosomes should be mapped by the projected 2005 completion date--the debate around the nature of the work is reaching a fevered pitch. If millennium doomsdayers seem frightening with their predictions of global demise, they don't hold a candle to the groups that claim that the Human Genome Project is the first step towards an existence straight out of Huxley's Brave New World...