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But pulling off the kind of lightning-speed changes this production requires means some very careful planning, especially because of the types of costumes the play requires.
At Round House Theatre, actors learn to be quick-change artists 2010
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Those driven to stay atop the lightning-speed advances in tech are most successful.
Career Paths 2010
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The SEC's large trader tracking proposal is part of a broader effort to get a handle on lightning-speed, automated trading activities that have emerged in recent years.
SEC Proposes Large Trader Reporting, ID System Fawn Johnson 2010
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Thursday's lightning-speed back-down from Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) -- I've independently confirmed that he was told by GOP leadership to reverse his "apology" to BP or lose his ranking member status on the House energy committee -- has not quieted down conservatives who are angry about the administration's handling of BP and don't have to face voters.
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Two years earlier, Rothberg had nervously invited Watson to have his complete DNA sequenced using a radical new lightning-speed technology developed by his company, 454 Life Sciences.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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It creates a lightning-speed 3-D image, a good thing since it's even harder to get pets to sit still in those things than humans.
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The name Connectrix was an amalgam of “connection” and “matrix” and undoubtedly had been concocted to evoke images of effective, lightning-speed communications, a mysterious network of wires, and Keanu Reeves in a black leather trench coat.
Insignificant Others Stephen McCauley 2010
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It has become the hotspot for lightning-speed changes in one's circumstances.
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The lightning-speed vampire effects are in the same style, just better-executed,the cast is nearlyidentical to the first film for the characters who appear in both, and the story adaptation is almost painfully true to the book.
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I really wanted to experience "the 80-foot Due Diligence Drop, the laser-light e-mail exchange, the lightning-speed courier chase and the Dolby Digital Surround Sound-generated whoosh of legal pad pages in your ear."
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