Word: speedsters
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...Owned by car-rental baron John D. Hertz, the feisty brown speedster crushed two rivals to win the Belmont by 25 lengths. But a minor ankle injury didn't heal, and he never raced again...
...best, play well, and [coach Joe Walsh] will respect that.”Joining Jenkins in the mix is senior Taylor Meehan, who hit .360 in the Ivies as a sophomore but sat out all of last year with a shoulder injury; versatile junior speedster Matt Rogers; and promising freshman Sean O’Hara, who is nursing a shoulder ailment of his own that will keep him from playing in the field in the season’s opening weeks. If Harvard’s season-opening three-game set at nationally ranked Wichita State is an indication, Jenkins?...
...memory as clear to Colin Croft as any of the 100-plus wickets he took as a West Indian speedster is a dressing-room visit in 1982 by the Australian captain. His side having just lost a Test match in Adelaide, the regal Greg Chappell strolled in with a message for his conquerors. "Gentleman, I'm going to be honest: you're better than us," Croft remembers Chappell saying. "But we are going to put plans in place so that, within 15 years, we're going to be not only world champions but world champions continuously." Though he'd later...
Lenovo was founded in Beijing in 1984 by 11 free-thinking researchers with $25,000 from a science academy. It markets PCs for every possible customer, from the top-of-the-line Pentium speedster to $300 bare-bones desktops. The growth potential for Lenovo in its home market appears limitless. IDC forecasts that PC sales in China will jump 57% from 2006 to 2010, to 36 million units. The U.S. market will reach 68 million units...
...Other manufacturers have flirted with ultralight models, but few have dared bring them to market. In 1997, Ford announced plans for what it called the P2000, which promised to be 40% lighter than conventional family sedans. And in 2002, Opel, the European subsidiary of General Motors, unveiled the Eco-Speedster, a sleek, low-riding sports car that gets 2.5 L of fuel to 100 km. But none of the manufacturers ever intended to offer their ultralight cars for sale. "The real problem is that consumers are still very wary of these cars," says Garel Rhys, director of the Centre...