A little farther downstream, a stretch of fast water steered the boats toward a cut bank and some strainers (as midstream downed limbs and trees are called), and LeRoy pulled up on a gravel bar Mexico to supervise, while a vaquero in reflector shades and a backward ball cap sat sentry on a burro.
Wednesday's opening of the new route to Paris and Brussels served as the official inauguration of the last 20-mile section of what British engineers have called "High Speed 1," the 68-mile, $12 billion stretch of fast track that runs from St. Pancras to the English coast at Folkestone.
INSIDE an unmarked warehouse here, not far from a depressing stretch of fast-food joints and the Southern X-Posure strip club, Robert MacDonald — nickname: Maximus — is torturing a group of people.
But a 15-2 run to close the half — fueled by a tightening defense and a stretch of fast-break baskets by Cuevas, Edwards and Faulk — put them in control.
Inside an unmarked warehouse here, not far from a depressing stretch of fast-food joints and the Southern X-Posure strip club, Robert MacDonald — nickname: Maximus — is _________ a group of people.
Even in clement weather they trudged to a stretch of fast-food joints in a pedestrian mall blocks away, or else snagged a plastic-wrapped sandwich and a cup of soup from a newsstand in the basement of the State House.
Some of his music requires extreme technical virtuosity, clearly reflecting his own abilities, often calling for great velocity, enormous leaps at speed, long stretches of fast repeated notes, and the maintenance of widely-spaced contrapuntal lines.
Crocodiles abound in the Zambezi, though they generally avoid stretches of fast-running water.
Ms. Higdon also provides long stretches of fast-bowed, percussion-supported, muscular orchestral writing, particularly in the opening movement and the finale, when both the score and this young orchestra were at their fiery best.
"Talk about politics," urges a banner over the street, "think of the big picture, and embrace the blocking of the water".Starting at the end of this year, a 600km stretch of the fast-flowing Yangzi, from the city of Chongqing to Yichang, is to be stilled, drowning ancient towns, temples and farmland.
The NeuroFlexor software program was used to analyze resistance to stretch (in Newton) with specific time point values identified before stretch (P0), in the early phase of stretch (P1), and at the end of fast stretch (P2) (see Figure 1).
