Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Clancy Shulman. Fully 94% of those surveyed considered protecting the environment a very important issue, and 63% supported stronger laws and regulations to get the job done. But when it comes to financing preservation, the public is sharply divided. Of the people polled, 48% were willing to "go full speed ahead" in "spending money to clean up the environment," but 47% said that, given other national problems, it would be better to "go slow." Despite their desire for a cleaner environment, 64% admitted that they personally "should be doing more" to achieve that goal. Perhaps the most revealing finding...
...school can have no more important function than to teach students how to make themselves clear. But by putting speed ahead of substance, the school creates false values. Racing against the clock is not an ideal way to organize one's thoughts or arrange one's words...
...same hazards apply to speed-reading. Yes, we are bedeviled each day by a mound of papers, and we need to have some way of getting swiftly at the vitals of letters or articles or presentations. But the habit of skimming is too easily carried over to creative reading. Few things are more rewarding than the way the mind can hover over a luminous paragraph or even a phrase, allowing it to light up the imagination. The way the mind transforms little markings on paper into images is one of the highest manifestations of human uniqueness...
...hardly the author's fault. It was much easier to write about life under Brezhnev without worrying about becoming dated, since virtually nothing ever changed under the dull, hairy Soviet leader. Writing The Russians was akin to painting with a skyscraper as a subject. Speed was not essential; the skyscraper wasn't going anywhere...
Weighing in at no more than 770 lbs. and usually measuring 4.6 ft. wide by 8.2 ft. long, a VSP can carry two passengers and reach a speed of just under 30 m.p.h. "VSP design and marketing are a direct result of French laws that define a category of vehicles for which no driver's license is required," says Philippe de la Jousseliniere, head of City Car, a Paris-based dealership. Like motorbikes, VSPs are barred from French highways and expressway bypasses. "On paper, VSP specs are those of a motorbike," says Christian Malet, whose Liberty Car service in Paris...