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...something like a portable Stinger missile. There will be constant updating of the electronic sensors and night optics that the guards use. And the coordination between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Secret Service to spot suspicious planes straying into White House air space will be put on a split-second basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A MAGNET FOR ODD INTRUDERS | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...ball found itself firmly in the lower left-half portion of the Lion net a split-second later, giving Harvard a 1-0 lead 13 minutes into the game...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Tight Scrapes for W. Booters | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...each quarter-point gain on a 1,000-share bet. But "riding a wave" is not so easy: a stock can blip upward, enticing a small trader to buy it, and then come tumbling down. "Oh my God!" cries a fortysomething beautician as she loses $250 in a split-second transaction involving Genzyme, a biotechnology firm. "This has been the longest trade of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bypassing the Brokers | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...extravagant celebration with waving fans and clattering castanets, but the highlight of the finale is the grande pas de deux. Sevillano enchants Armand with her coquetishness and bedazzles the audience with her technical skill. She skips delicately across the stage en pointe, slices through the air with split-second leaps and performs multiple pirouettes and fouette turns with luscious ease. Armand tosses his head more sexily than ever while leaping in furious circles about the stage and turning as many as six times in his perfectly executed pirouettes. Together, the pair moves as if they were truly made for each...

Author: By Phoebe Cushman, | Title: Battling Windmills at the Wang | 2/18/1993 | See Source »

...King beating case, continual repetition of the video may have dulled its initial horror for the jury. And by presenting the tape in slow motion, separated into split-second frames, the defense fractured a seamless sequence of apparent brutality into a hundred moments of uncertain meaning. Attorney Stone contended that King can be seen attempting to rise at several points. "In the hundredths of a second between this photograph and this one," Stone said of one display, "Mr. King is again coming up off the ground, and he charges Officer Powell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of an Acquittal | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

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