Word: split-second
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...Split-second thinking resulted in the Crimson's first goal of the afternoon. Bonnie sent a pass up the left center, and midfielder Ramy Rajbaille, anticipating an opening up front, allowed the ball to go through to sophomore forward David Kramer...
...consciousness and society through the purposeful absurdities of the unconscious. To dislodge conventional habits of mind, they practiced unpremeditated methods of creation, "unguided" sketching and automatic writing. Moved by their example, Cartier-Bresson realized that his Leica was the most automatic art instrument of all, one that could make split-second images that owed much to chance and much less to calculation...
...illicit profiting from information about private corporate behavior before that knowledge has reached the public domain. It has been compared to playing poker with marked cards. But deciding when the cards have been improperly marked -- and, above all, proving it -- is no mean feat, since rumor, innuendo and split-second inference are the stuff of ordinary stock trading...
...industrial stocks is taking sharper, swifter leaps and dives than ever before. Buy! Buy! Buy! Sell! Sell! Sell! The biggest stock boom on record is leading to manic levels of activity on the nation's exchanges. Win! Win! Win! Millions, even billions, are being pocketed almost overnight, in split-second transactions affecting the fate of some of America's most important corporations. Lose! Lose! Lose! At the same time, Wall Street is struggling to recover in the public eye from some of the worst insider-trading scandals in its history...
...Suddenly, the fast-paced music takes over-and the figure writhe into a fascinating hysteria. The clumps of dancers demand total attention as they separate and then rejoin--all White kicking their legs and making their hands vibrate in the air. Just as chaos seems to hover in a split-second the music stops...