Word: speeding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...really fired up right now," sophomore Michelle Guerette said. "We have been building confidence and boat speed all year, and now we feel like we can take on any team in any race in any conditions...
...fact that we won by such a huge margin shows that we were really going for boat speed instead of concentrating on just beating the other teams," Guerette said. "We put it all out on the line on Saturday, and it just showed to us that rankings don't matter and that previous races don't matter. We just need to race our best every time...
...coast of Venezuela, three 400-ft. ships are laying down miles of high-speed fiber-optic cable capacious enough to carry 600,000 calls simultaneously. In a high mountain town outside Cuzco, Peru, a co-op of native farmers has found a way to get more than 10 times the local price for its potato crop by selling to a New York City organic-food store it found on the Internet. In the streets of Sao Paulo, fashionable women have taken to carrying around white West Highland terriers, the mascot of a free Internet-service provider called iG that, like...
...first time, Latin Americans won't have to waste precious minutes reaching computers in Europe or the U.S. for websites stored there. Access, says Petterson, will be 300 times as fast and 50 times as cheap. Both these projects are helping build an Internet backbone that will speed up data transfer and bring down the cost of metered calls. New satellite and cable technologies will also help...
...Beacon is a 61-room hotel built by Boston developer Paul Roiff. It aims at the young digerati who jet between high-tech start-ups on both coasts. Rooms have three phone lines, high-speed Internet access, 330-thread-count Italian sheets and lots of mahogany. "There isn't a square of vinyl in the entire hotel," boasts general manager William Sander. Recent guests include film director Wes Craven, Viacom potentate Sumner Redstone and sundry chairmen of American and European banks. Rates start at $395 a night...