Over the decades, the ticker sped up and washed over popular culture.
The Supersport race at least gets under way and to be grid-side next to all that throbbing, vrooming metal speeds up the ticker and makes your extremities tingle.
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Ticker, high-speed means of reporting information on securities transactions.
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When they were almost done, Bob held up his iPhone for Mike to see — there was a stock-market ticker onscreen — and started to speed up.
Discussing how the election had literally gone to the dogs Sunday, "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos reminisced with panelist Donna Brazile about working in the Michael Dukakis campaign's rapid-response room during the 1988 election, a simpler time where "one of those old AP tickers" kept staffers up to speed.
One twist on the tweed came out with a braid that ran boldly, like ticker tape, around the edge: I made out "Rue Cambon" and "Ginza" before the models whizzed past at warp speed, presumably breezing through to the first-class lounge.
That year, the width of ticker paper was expanded to an inch from three-quarters of an inch to accommodate the new machine's variable speeds.
