Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computers as the first did over typewriters, or as typewriters did over writing by hand. Says Gordon: "I cannot type or think any faster than I did with my first personal computer in 1983, although it contained only one-fiftieth of the memory and operated at one-thirtieth the speed of my present model...
...California, Hyde's friend and sometime movie companion. What Hyde felt was not so much personal embarrassment, say friends, as insult to his four children and his wife of 45 years, whom he still mourns since her death six years ago. Yet Hyde admitted the affair with a speed and self-effacement that set the standard for such things. The performance cemented the notion that Hyde is the best--maybe only--asset the Republicans have at the moment: a man who looks, and is, sound and fair, even as he oversees a panel whose members are not all known...
...pushed through space by an engine that works by firing electrons into atoms of xenon gas, stripping each of an electron and giving the atoms an electric charge--ionizing them. The ions are then accelerated through an electric field and emitted from thrusters at 65,000 m.p.h. Despite that speed, the particles produce little thrust, comparable to the weight of a piece of paper...
...success defensively will be its ability to contain Cornell's explosive rushing tandem of Deon Harris and Justin Bush. Harris the primary back is a powerful bruising presence who will try to wear down the Crimson front seven. Bush, a fleet-footed scatterback is a playmaker with tremendous speed...
Statistically, then, it's too close to call. Garciaparra draws slightly ahead because of his defense, the importance of his position and his speed. The just thing to do, however, would be to give it to the entire Yankees lineup...