Mr. Bryant stressed speed and punchiness over brawn, sometimes giving a jazzy feel.
"You say, 'Gee, if I can get that kind of real-time information, speed then is worth having.' " But, he stressed, "speed's expensive".
Convair had stressed speed rather than passenger capacity, but the 880 and the improved 990 that followed it were commercial disasters that almost forced the company out of business.
In addition, when a heterogeneous composite material with different thermal characteristics is subjected to elevated temperature, differential thermal stresses speed up the degradation.
The company's software stresses speed and audio sync over image quality, and there's a clear benefit: You can see lips move as people talk, with their voices in perfect sync, and the image doesn't dissolve into a storm of brightly colored squares whenever someone turns his or her head.
Virgin Media, for which Liberty Global, an American media group, agreed to pay $23.3 billion last month, has eschewed the battle for rights, preferring instead to stress the speed of its broadband, clever set-top boxes and so forth.
This all mirrors current trends in software development inside enterprises, which stress agility, speed and the use of on-demand, low-cost cloud computing.
The medical field has also caught on to the power of green spaces to reduce stress and speed healing, leading hospitals to build healing gardens.
Raven, Raven, and Court (1993, p. G14) note how fatigue, ill health and stress affect speed and accuracy on the RPM.
Showing/expanding Figure 4 to include what its in vivo only counterpart would look like, with associated time lines between the two methods, would be helpful to stress that speed is the main advantage here.
