Word: speeding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Crimson's preseason game, Peljto had 12 points and seven rebounds to lead the Crimson, and she showed flashes of brilliance in driving to the basket and pulling up for jump shots. Also new to the team is Tricia Tubridy, a hard-nosed 6' forward with great speed and a knack for the game...
...abolition of state-by-state, winner-take-all electoral votes would speed the disintegration of the already weakened two-party system. It would encourage single-issue ideologues and eccentric millionaires to jump into presidential contests. The multiplication of splinter parties would make it hard for major-party candidates to win popular-vote majorities. Cumulating votes from state to state, they could force a runoff if no candidate got more than 40 percent of the vote - and then could extract concessions from the major parties. The prospect of double national elections could be alarming to a bored and weary electorate, especially...
...Things are dicey in West Palm. But compared to what? To Joseph McCarthy, to the Civil War, to the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II? We've hit a speed bump, we're not in a head-on collision...
...There are some minor precipices already in sight. After the selling picked up speed heading into the bell, the NASDAQ closed down 171 points to 3028 by midafternoon, is rubbing right up against the 3000-and-change barrier that technical analysts say is poised to give way. And the Dow, down 231 to 10,602, may soon encounter a similar problem with...
...grit and heat of desert races. The pictures are terribly grainy, but that only makes the heat more searing and the intensity of the car race more exhausting. He works well with light and presents the hot rods in the desert as machines of lasting endurance and infinite speed. The image of a potbellied and shirtless racer in between two coupes, his arms hanging loosely as he surveys the landscape, is both quiet and loud. The picture is still and yet the buzz of the heat bears down on the viewer, screaming its aridity...