Word: stopwatch
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...pronouncements made him seem tweedy and hapless. Oddly for a man who first came to the Defense Department in the mid-1960s as one of the chart-toting whiz kids ushered in by Robert McNamara, Aspin was poor at organizational matters. In a place accustomed to firm decisions and stopwatch timing, he drove Pentagon planners crazy with meetings run like academic seminars, marked by late starts, later ^ finishes and stretches of sedative analysis in between...
...free-fall, Hoffman timed his speed of descent with an altmeter and a stopwatch. Within 10 seconds, he determined that his impact speed would be too high, took off his primary parachute, opened his backup, and landed safely...
...teachers say Buell's response is deceptive.They point out that they work on one-yearcontracts, which do not have to be renewed. Onlylazy administrators incapable of making toughdecisions need a four-year rule to get rid ofmediocre teachers, teachers say. If anything,keeping a stopwatch on teacher's tenure encouragesaverage performance...
Several medical societies, including the American Medical Association, are studying the 900 idea, but they have yet to come to any conclusions about its usefulness or safety. For now, it seems, patients would be wise to think carefully before dialing -- and get a stopwatch. At $3 a minute, or $180 an hour, the bill itself could trigger cardiac symptoms too grave for any phone doctor to resolve...
...goal of the course is for people to find where they are anywhere in the world with only a sextant and a stopwatch, within a mile," Sadler says...