Word: speeding
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...judgment, and a conservative." There were a lot of affirmative nods last week, even among some Democrats, when George W. settled on Cheney. Like the elder George Bush, he has a serious resume, with stops at the White House, Congress and the Pentagon, plus a career that hit warp speed when he was just 34 and became Gerald Ford's chief of staff. "He's bright. He doesn't have a mean streak. He deals with issues, not personalities. He doesn't run to the cameras," says Lee Hamilton, a leading House Democrat when Cheney was minority whip...
...using the Guard to avoid more onerous military service, the Guard was not above using the famous son as well. He was their antidrug poster boy: "George Walker Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed," read a 1970 press release. "Oh, he gets high all right, but not from narcotics... As far as kicks are concerned, Lt. Bush gets his from the roaring afterburner...
...works for Genmar, Kirila figures that at some point his company, now called VEC Technology Inc., will go public. For the present he has a mandate to spread the gospel of digital manufacturing and fund start-up companies that aim, as he puts it, "to raise the clock speed of manufacturing culture." Jacobs is planning to do what Kirila originally intended: to lease the patented VEC system in the same way that Pitney Bowes used to lease stamp machines. "We're proving we can do it better, kinder, cleaner," says Jacobs, who has lost none of his salesmanship. "The world...
...like Ukulele Lady, Hula Lou and My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua made the Hawaiian sound, in its perky pop mutation, the hottest "world music" of its time. Nawahi, a showman as much as an artist, aimed to please. He could run through Kitten on the Keys at warp speed, or play Turkey in the Straw on the steel guitar using his foot as the steel...
...widespread is this protest movement? And how deep are its roots? We may soon find out, for it's emergence is a study in the warp-speed politics of the age of the Internet. This is a time when a Web designer named Craig Winters can start an organization called the Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Food with a staff of one (himself), mount a website and sell 160,000 "Take Action Packets" in nine weeks. Want to know what the Chileans are doing about transgenic grain shipments? How South Korean labeling laws work? Just subscribe...