Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roommate, his girlfriend and a slew of other characters in great physical danger by stealing the prize pooch of a local Mafioso. Reilly does not remotely consider the idea that he or his friends might be killed for their stupidity until they are forced to embark on a high-speed race to Miami, culminating in violent showdown between factions of a crime family. After going through two car tire slashings and getting caught stealing $30,000 from the neighborhood boss, one would think that Reilly, with all his computer-knowledge, might get the point and give the dog back...
...dissolve it. Friday, beleaguered prime minister Sergei Kiriyenko tried a softer sell: He appealed to its good nature. "The financial market has practically ceased to exist," Kiriyenko said. "Social tension is growing in society, which naturally is not helpful to stabilization." Kiriyenko pleaded with the recalcitrant Duma to speed passage of a series of new tax laws that Russia needs to get a desperately needed multibillion-dollar bailout from...
...much-publicized mass layoff of 40,000 employees had failed to boost business, and worst of all, the largest U.S. telephone company (1997 revenues: $51.3 billion) was stuck on the sidelines, while upstarts such as WorldCom and MCI were teaming to deliver everything from long-distance service to high-speed Internet access. "This marvelous industry was growing in double digits globally," Armstrong explains. "The only trouble was, AT&T was not participating in that growth...
...carry two-way traffic by the end of this year, with 95% scheduled to be ready by the end of 2000. At the same time, AT&T plans to spend some $400 per household to install the digital set-top boxes that will serve as portals to high-speed networks that will carry voice, video and data signals. So eager are the companies to get started that they plan to cross-market their cable and telephone services even as regulators review the merger--a strategy sure to bring little joy to households already swamped by come...
...floated on some 20 crustal plates, 60 miles thick, kept in motion by ... yeah, well, we'll figure that out later. But in the 1960s and '70s more geologists than not had signed on to the theory. Most agreed, for instance, that India had rammed into Tibet at high speed (and is still ramming), heaving up former ocean floor to create the Himalayas...