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...exciting,” Kitovitz said. “They were ranked highly before the race and obviously they’d beaten us at San Diego, so it was important for us. I’d say there’s definitely a lot more speed to come from this boat. We’ve yet to have the perfect race.”After the start, Princeton jumped out to a quick lead, using the race’s first 20 strokes to put a comfortable half-length margin between itself and the trailing Crimson. In the early...
Sandor advocated an emissions trading program similar to the one he'd put forward for acid rain, and his thoughts helped shape the Kyoto Protocol, which requires developed nations to reduce their emissions and created a carbon trading and offset market to speed that process along. In the late 1990s he began formulating the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), a private emissions trading market, to take advantage of the changes he assumed would be coming when the U.S. ratified Kyoto. Of course, that never happened, but Sandor still launched...
...There’s an acronym we use called PQs, physical qualities,” Polian noted. “There is a baseline height, weight, speed—particularly speed as regards Ivy League players—that is necessary to play...
...That’s the great equalizer in the NFL—it’s a speed game,” Polian remarked. “So if you have speed, it doesn’t matter where you play college football, not that the Ivy League’s bad football—it isn’t—but it doesn’t matter where you play college football. If you can run, generally speaking, you’ll get a chance to prove you can play...
...motion along with sounds of laughter and chatter create the atmosphere of a busy restaurant. Later in the film, when Jeremy kisses Lizzie as she lies sleeping on the bar, Wong uses characters’ movement to create a moment of dreamlike hesitancy. Wong frequently accompanies variations in film speed with music that drowns out any other sound effect. Although at times these sequences make the film seem almost like an extended music video, it is enjoyable for any fan of artists such as Cassandra Wilson, Cat Power, and Otis Redding, who dominate the soundtrack. Wong uses music...