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...first day of racing school, and my instructor and co-pilot, Paul Mazzacane, looks as if he's about to blow a fuse. We're on a skid pad, a circular track slicked down with water, and I'm speeding around it so fast that the rear tires lose traction and the car goes into a fishtail. For most folks, this would be the time to let go of the wheel and pray (which is my instinct), but the idea here is to practice the spin so many times that you regain control of the vehicle--by steering...
...although of course in the latter game the ability to curve the stones does not come from the fact that the stones are not round, but because the stone slides on the edges of the cup-shaped depression on the bottom of the stone which gives it a certain traction on the ice when turned one way or another. However, the two games are exactly alike in principle and as that principle is the one thing that makes each of them a fascinating and scientific game, your article seems rather pointless when it is left...
...underground movement faces enormous difficulties getting traction in a country where police surveillance is pervasive, and the video has yet to be definitively authenticated...
...they pocket a hefty 5%-to-7% commission on each sale. Today that clubby world is being shaken more and more by a handful of upstarts. Internet interlopers like LendingTree, along with regional discounters like Foxtons in the Northeast and CataList Homes on the West Coast, have been gaining traction with a new scenario--one that simplifies and shortens the process for buyers and offers sellers overdue relief on the commissions they must...
...percent of your eggs in one basket and then you cry for four years,” Rivers said. “If [President Bush] wins you have no traction, action or juice. Make [Senator Kerry] earn the vote...