1.   Nick celebrated with a close second on Everest Major Wager -- to who but John Whitaker!

2.   Applicants in the morning said they sped through in three minutes.

3.   Deferral programs are intended to help companies react to a business cycle that has sped up in recent years.

4.   Haff said the suspects sped off in an older model black and silver Acura Legend that was waiting in the parking lot.

5.   Most important, the commission proposed ways to speed elections in which workers vote on whether to be represented by unions.

6.   More importantly, Zedillo has chosen to speed changes in the economy that the North American Free Trade Accord set in motion.

7.   Only recently have tools been able to measure the gas, which moves at lightning speeds in living tissues.

8.   Russia must speed improvements in its tax system and battle crime more effectively to maintain its transition to a free market system, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said.

9.   Robey, of Morgan Stanley, said the latest merger could speed consolidation in the pharmaceutical industry.

10.   The advantage of reading Word files in this simplified view is, of course, speed in scrolling and editing.