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...consumate animal player; he is more cunning than a grey fox, swifter than a spring buck, and with his nautilus training, stronger than a wooly mammoth," Jack says...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Life as the Corsican Brothers | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...years, the two grand quests of computer science -- to design ever swifter supercomputers and to endow machines with artificial intelligence -- have each proceeded as if the other did not exist. Now, spurred by technological breakthroughs and an explosion of commercial interest, these two avenues of research may be converging. See TECHNOLOGY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Mar. 28, 1988 | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...last week, the coach of the U.S. bobsled team said Gault was the swifter pusher. "We can only take 12 people to Calgary and Gault was the better pusher," said Jeffrey W. Jost...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Harvard Sledder Fights Onto U.S. Olympic Squad | 2/13/1988 | See Source »

Jeffrey W. Jost, the coach of the U.S. bobsledteam, said that he gave Gault the alternate slotbecause he was simply a swifter pusher...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Harvard Senior Pulled Off U.S. Bobsled Team | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

Never in U.S. financial history has there been a collection of commotions quite like the Great Stock Market Spectacular of 1986. Up! Up! Up! Down! Down! Down! The Dow Jones average of 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manic Market | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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