He conditioned his players to emphasize quickness, adopting the 40-yard dash as a measure of speed because that was the distance players needed to run to cover a punt.
In Trivial Pursuit, the distance players can move is determined by the roll of a die.
Mr. Behrens and Mr. Burke say the big long-distance players -- AT&T, Sprint and WorldCom -- face fundamental problems as boundaries disappear between long-distance and local calling.
In the phone arena, MCI, a unit of WorldCom, has been punished along with AT&T and other long-distance players by plummeting rates and an inability to compete on a level playing field with the regional Baby Bells.
Besides, the Bells, struggling with declining prices for phone service and the loss of customers to wireless carriers, may not have the money to buy any of the big long-distance players.
Speculation has been rife for months that Baby Bell carriers such as Verizon will end up acquiring major long-distance players such as Sprint.
A mating dance will soon ensue in the wireless sector, the long-distance players will seek alliances as their traditional business continues to erode and big incumbent carriers will continue to scoop up the assets of failing upstarts as the post-bubble cleanup process accelerates.
The distance between player-to-player decreases as more players participate because for an item x, its normalized and relative distances to all the players (labeled as d1,x, d2,x,.., dn,x) add up to a unitary value.
The Arkham series has always been at its best when it's up close and personal, and the Batmobile only serves to distance the player from the game's gristle.
(The forty-yard dash, the standard measurement for judging the speed of potential draft picks, is so named because it was thought to be the distance a player would have to sprint to catch up with a punt).
