Word: surf
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...Internet bandwidth and end up fighting one another during prime time because their service has slowed to a crawl. This, the ad said, is why you should instead get the superfast phone technology DSL (Digital Subscriber Line). For $40 or more a month, it's supposed to let you surf at around 30 times the speed of a 56K modem and talk on the phone at the same time...
...began, "to know when exactly to take your cues." But in the ceremony's genuinely showstopping moments - as Meryl Tankard's aerial ballet turned the stadium into a giant fishbowl, as an Olympic flag unfurled from the one end of the stadium across the athletes like the spume of surf - the only appropriate response...
Unlike his predecessor Paul E. "no waves" Johnson, Harvard University Police Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley has stirred up the surf during his first five years at the helm...
...also experimenting with new UNIX-based kiosks, donated by Sun Microsystems. There are three machines which use a UNIX operating system in the Science Center outside of Lecture Hall D, intended to serve the same purpose as the iMac kiosks--a place to quickly check e-mail and surf the Internet...
...waters dissolve their separate identities and reflect a common image; it is both solvent and balm, mixing disparate peoples and smoothing over their differences. Its own life grows richer: as industry becomes more environmentally enlightened, the harbor's waters have improved. Above the sharks that cruise its depths, dolphins surf the bow waves of the ferries, and a couple of times a year a migrating whale takes a wrong turn and passes a day or two marveling at the harborside mansions of the eastern suburbs...