Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Moving the date, complained Oskar Lafontaine, the Social Democratic opposition's candidate for Chancellor, was a "deceptive maneuver." His party made it clear that it would block the two-thirds vote necessary to speed up elections. At that, the government dropped the plan. Although the Social Democrats support an early date for unification, they want balloting to come later...
...leading Nigerian newspaper, the Guardian, reported yesterday morning that Taylor's rebels shot two Nigerian citizens to death inside their Monrovia embassy during the past week. The report was certain to step up pressure on Nigeria's military government to speed up intervention...
Under attack for liquidating its holdings too slowly, which increases the need for cash infusions, the RTC has begun to speed up the pace. Last week Seidman announced the details of a "fall inventory-reduction sale," in which the agency will unload shuttered thrifts and seized assets by the end of the year. Up for grabs will be everything from junk bonds to golf courses to shopping malls. The $50 billion asset sell-off will refuel the bailout process, but it will take its toll on the U.S. by depressing, to some extent, an already weak real estate market...
...headlong rush toward unification picked up still more speed last week as East German Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere urged that all-German elections be moved up from Dec. 2 to Oct. 14. De Maiziere's appeal came just one day after the two Germanys signed a treaty for the first free all-German vote in 57 years. De Maiziere explained that October elections would encourage West German investment in East Germany's floundering economy. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl welcomed the proposal, which will improve the chances of the Christian Democrats, the party of both the Chancellor...
...achieve these extremes, designers create computer-simulation models that show the effects of high speed and sudden force on the riders, the cars and the structure. This enables engineers to build roller coasters with the steepest possible inclines and most sharply banked curves to create the illusion of breakneck speed. All roller-coaster trains are actually gravity propelled after the initial chain-drawn ascent and thus steadily slow down from the first big hill onward...