Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Toymaker Hasbro Inc. is launching its new line of Record Breakers miniature racing cars with a $6 million advertising campaign highlighting their principal selling point: speed. The company says the battery-powered vehicles can go the equivalent of 500 m.p.h. in an adult-size automobile. Record Breakers are imported from Japan, where they are a national craze. While some analysts predict smaller U.S. sales, Mattel, Matchbox and other toy manufacturers are releasing their own superfast cars...
...have had of this man idling afternoons away over a fishing rod disappear. Abruptly, he turns away from his quarterback and stalks downfield toward the defense. Out of the corners of their eyes, the helmeted giants and his assistant coaches see him coming. Chests tighten. The execution and speed of the defensive drills rev up a notch. The simple reason: no one is eager to receive one-on-one remedial instruction from Louis Leo Holtz on this or any upcoming autumn afternoon...
With breathtaking speed, the hideous partition that split Berlin falls to the pickax of reforms inspired by Mikhail Gorbachev. As the city exults and the world ponders the consequences, one thing is certain: nothing will ever be quite the same again. -- Is one Germany better than two? -- An obituary for the Wall of Shame, where some 75 people yearning for freedom have perished...
...conducting our campaign like a long-distance runner," says Cesar, "gathering speed as we go along." But unless Chamorro injects some substance into her candidacy, the race may prove not just long distance but long shot...
...researchers measured fitness in a straightforward way: they put people on a treadmill, set them walking, and periodically increased first the incline and then the speed of the treadmill until the walkers could no longer continue. The subjects were grouped into five different fitness levels based on their performance and followed for the next eight years...