Word: swifter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...steady drop in cost and rise of swifter, sleeker products are pushing another trend as well: the expanding corps of small businesses that can act bigger than their size by going online. With quick 56K modems and low-cost servers, lots of businesses see the Web as an opportunity that has arrived...
...following pages, we will take a look back at the history of the Games, visit their newest host, provide a guide through the maze of events, profile six athletes who embody the Olympic motto of Citius, Altius, Fortius (Swifter, Higher, Stronger), and, in a series of photographs, show the timeless quality of the Olympics. But for now, Let the Games begin...
...foreigners on the otherwise all Malay team of Admiralty Club in 1992 and 1993. He showed up for a few months of training and played in two games before quitting. His coach, Mohamed Ansari, says Leeson was too big and too slow to play with the shorter and swifter Malays. "He was always friendly," says Ansari. But no one on the team ever really got to know...
...true, and males really are better, on average, at certain mathematical tasks. If this tempts you to shunt all the girls back to home ec, you probably need remedial work in the statistics of "averages" yourself. Just as some women are taller and stronger than some men, some are swifter at abstract algebra. Many of the pioneers in the field of X-ray crystallography -- which involves three- dimensional visualization and heavy doses of math -- were female, including biophysicist Rosalind Franklin, whose work was indispensable to the discovery of the double-helical structure...
...trip now takes four hours by car). Opposing the move is Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, which foresees government bailouts, high ticket prices and eventual failure for the futuristic choo-choo. If it is wrong, Southwest may have a hard time competing with the bullet, even though air travel is swifter still...