Word: speeding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...play a physical style that starts to take its toll during the game," Shafer said. "Some teams prefer smaller, speed guys, but I like big guys who are tough to face in a two- or three-game series...
...effects of their diminishing freedom. Most people don't hunt or collect guns, and so they cannot see the restrictiveness of these laws. Maybe someday people will start getting in record numbers of car accidents. Should legislators then start making car companies install devices in all cars that limits speed to 55 mph? Or rather should we hold people responsible for their own actions (gasp)? The problem isn't everybody, it's the bad drivers. Make it tougher to get a license but don't become Big Brother and hold everyone back...
...started during Greenspan's latest congressional testimony. At first he repeated his usual concern that the economy is expanding too fast. And for the past half-year, it has indeed grown at a red-hot 6% annual rate, double its presumed speed limit and thus an inflation risk as demand for both goods and labor threatens to outpace supply...
...slowdown effect, of course, will make life easier for Chairman Greenspan. "If oil prices help slow the economy down to within the 3.5 percent speed limit on growth desired by Fed economists, Greenspan may not need to raise interest rates again after March," says Baumohl. "Already the stock market senses that the cumulative effect of previous rate hikes combined with the rising oil price are going to slow growth later this year." The big question, particularly for presidential candidates, will be how abrupt the slowdown will be. If the growth rate eases gently down from the current 6 percent...
...synch repeatedly. According to a study of ovations in Romania and Hungary, this back-and-forthing is due to conflicting needs: the wish to make the most possible noise (random clapping) vs. the urge to clap in unison. People switch from one to the other by consciously adjusting the speed of their applause. Why do some folks seem to play this game with such gusto? According to the study, published last week in Nature, it may be a function of how closely knit the audience is. Maybe the crowd that feels like one claps like...