Word: trots
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...rest of the pack, don't bother. The HP 648C produced nice text but poor images, both of which it expelled at a turtle trot. The Canon S400 took 20 to 30 sec. to warm up each time I changed a setting, then produced mostly mediocre text and graphics. And as much as I liked the simple setup and compact design of the Lexmark, its overall quality and speed were too inconsistent to push it into the winner's circle...
...news, meanwhile, is that we have no culture of our own. Oh, we have "painters," yes--just take a trot through the Carpenter Center, or the modernist wing at the Fogg. And we have "writers," absolutely--turn on Oprah's Book Club, she'll introduce you to them. "Musicians," too--that Eminem fellow is pretty popular, right? And we've got plenty of great minds--most of them tenured at Harvard, if you believe the promotional literature...
...start running until you walk fast, and you start to trot before you run," Mazzoleni said. "We haven't been in any races yet. Until we're in a few races, we'll take this, learn from it and be a better team the next time...
...down here, because Aboriginal athletes of accomplishment are too rare in this country. And Cathy hasn't shied from the issues. When she won her first big international championship in the Commonwealth Games several years ago, someone in the audience handed her the Aboriginal flag and, during her victory trot, she wore it around her shoulders. Well, she was just vilified back home. She became a pariah. Old white male sports officials wanted her banned...
...grown up and on my own, I watch the kids on my Manhattan street trot off to their first days of school, clad in their still-flawless little khakis and colorful shirts. I gaze longingly at their brand-new Elmo backpacks, until their parents catch me staring and shoot me a dirty look, hooking a protective arm around their offspring and hurrying them along a bit faster...