Word: speeding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nothing could have prepared Van Beusekom for the sight of one of the world's best forwards breaking towards her at full speed--not even any pre-game advice from Harvard's former goaltender...
...Shaw Jr., the senior member of the court, is a former public defender; and several others were trial lawyers, a traditionally liberal sector of the bar. Recently, the justices have had tense relations with Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Republicans. In April the court rejected rules he backed to speed up death-penalty appeals. Bush responded by charging the court with engaging in "unnecessary delay and legal gamesmanship" in capital cases...
...Barlett and Jim Steele that investigated corporate welfare and campaign finance; and Walter's own writing, including his profile of Bill Gates, which remains the best piece I have ever read on the Microsoft billionaire. But even more important than these highlights was TIME's editorial consistency, its cruising speed, which also rose to new levels...
...laundry lines in every Indian city. In the '90s, they were installed to bring cable TV to urban Indians. These days, they're being transformed into broadband Internet connections. There are 30 million cable connections--compared with 20 million telephone lines; 2 million people in Bombay have high-speed access to the Internet, often by way of a television set, not an expensive PC. (There are 75 million TVs in India.) A slew of companies, including Enron and Hughes Telecom, are building fiber-optic networks to boost those numbers...
...growth than software because it can employ Indians with nonspecialized education. Some 100 Indian companies are doing medical transcription already, and Selectronic operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year--a claim that Indian power companies and telephone exchanges can barely make. There are challenges to the job. Speed is a must; the company promises a 24-hour turnaround. So, too, is accuracy, and that poses challenges for Indians dealing with American English, which is why those U.S. TV programs are part of the training program. One worker couldn't understand a case history that involved a patient...