Word: slower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Stevie Wonder's hit song Superstition. "Anyone can play music and have a really satisfying experience," says Eran Egozy, co-founder of Harmonix Music Systems Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., software company specializing in "jamware." By moving your mouse around on a compass-like grid, you can play faster, slower, higher and lower notes--but never out of tune. "You're always in time, in key and playing the right notes," says Egozy, who admits that, mellifluous as it is, "it's not John Coltrane." Still, like flight simulators that let you pilot a jumbo jet, Harmonix's music simulator...
...even to record simultaneously a digital version of your film picture. For now, APS picture quality is roughly the same as 35-mm film. And like 35 mm, APS is available in different film speeds to match varying light conditions or snare fast-action shots. (As a rule, the slower the film speed, the sharper the resolution.) A note to travelers: APS film can be hard to find outside the U.S. and Japan, so stock up before leaving on that trip to foreign shores...
Jimmy, as he is known, has made a career out of going past slower defenders and is one of the best-conditioned athletes on the team, which is precisely why he is so dangerous late in the game...
...distance companies also planned to list the new tax as a line item on long-distance bills. The liberals responsible for the tax would not tolerate such disclosure, however, so the FCC and the vice president's office leaned on the companies to hide the tax in exchange for slower implementation of it. The result: consumers now pay the tax without knowledge...
...Four men want to cross a narrow bridge at night, but they only have one flashlight. Only two people can cross at once, and since it is dark, one of them must have the light. When people walk together they must walk at the pace of the slower person. Each man walks at the following pace...