Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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With the match tied, both teams dug in for the final game. The deciding game was scored by "speed points, "where a team can win points on its opponent's serve...
...dancers make good use of the whole stage, darting from one side to the other. They roll from the ground to medium platforms, to high platforms, to the balcony, in high speed and slow motion. The energy they create fills the stage and spills out into the audience. But they end as abruptly as they begin...
...hopes to grab a bigger chunk. Last week Big Blue introduced a top- of-the-line workstation series called the RISC System/6000. The new machines' advanced circuitry is based on IBM's own RISC (for reduced- instruction-set computer) technology, which simplifies a computer's processing steps to speed up its work. IBM's new workstations will execute between 25 million and 40 million instructions a second, 20% faster than some other brands...
...final plunge of the most powerful and dreaded firm on Wall Street in the Roaring Eighties came with astonishing speed. Like the abrupt fall of the Berlin Wall thousands of miles away, the collapse suddenly confirmed what everyone in the financial world could already feel in the wind: a new era had arrived. After a desperate three-day search for cash in which it was spurned by its bankers, Drexel Burnham Lambert Group filed bankruptcy papers an hour before midnight last Tuesday...
...difficulty for both Mandela and De Klerk will be to keep their critics at bay as they speed toward negotiations. In the euphoria over Mandela's release, expectations threaten to run unreasonably high and trigger a disappointment that will result in violence. Even once all parties come to the table, no road map exists for South Africa's future. No one has put forward a formula that satisfactorily reconciles black demands for one person, one vote with white fears of being dominated -- or tyrannized -- by a black majority...