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  • Its medium-speed meteors diverge from a point in N Bootes, below-left of the Plough's handle as the latter climbs through the NE and E sky between midnight and dawn.

    Starwatch: The January night sky 2011

  • Not doing so would complicate the integration of Bergen, whose medium-speed gas-powered engines are a good fit with Tognum's high-speed diesel business.

    Tognum Bid Looks Underpowered Matthew Curtin 2011

  • The U.K. engine maker will contribute its Bergen gas and diesel medium-speed engine business to the venture, which will compete in a market worth more than €30 billion a year that is growing fast, especially in developing economies.

    Daimler, Rolls-Royce in €3.2 Billion Tognum Bid Jonathan Buck 2011

  • Rolls-Royce will contribute its Bergen gas and diesel medium-speed engine business to the new venture, which will compete in a €30 billion-a-year market that is growing rapidly, especially in developing economies.

    Rolls-Royce, Daimler Fail to Raise Tognum Bid Jonathan Buck 2011

  • Her daughter, Lily, said she considers herself a "medium-speed" reader and had to increase her speed to finish about 10 books for her classroom's 100-book challenge.

    Professor Pushes For Return To Slow Reading 2010

  • Even more so, there are no medium-speed lines, only high-speed (for some cities) or excruciatingly slow (for the rest).

    unknown title 2009

  • Large, medium-speed reciprocating engines that run on gas, come in unit sizes upto 16 MW. 10 of them make up a 160 MW plant.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Problem With Wind 2009

  • At that discount, "projected sales for the [medium-speed vehicle] segment are something like 500,000 vehicles per year globally," says Danny Epp, general manager for Dynasty Electric Car Corp. in Vancouver.

    In The Slow Lane 2008

  • Maini expects today's medium-speed vehicles to evolve into cars capable of traveling 160-plus kilometers per charge and attaining speeds of 97kph for occasional freeway use.

    In The Slow Lane 2008

  • In Europe they're known as medium-speed vehicles; in North America, they're classified as neighborhood electric vehicles — a category of street-legal machines originally created in the 1990s to allow golf carts to operate within gated communities.

    In The Slow Lane 2008

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