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best and pacing
The Jacksonville Jaguars had been one of the NFL's best teams in the 1999 season, pacing the AFC with a 14-2 record.
His best horses were Rum Customer that won the pacing Triple Crown in 1968, and Green Speed that was named harness horse of the year in 1977.
The best of the old noir detective dramas had lively pacing and crisp tough-guy dialogue.

best and mile
His best mile to date is 2:32.2.
His best mile to date is 2:28-:33.
Since 1 minute of error is about a nautical mile, the best possible accuracy of celestial navigation is about.
The introduction of sugar cane became the single best move for the Barbados economy at the time, the economy boomed and Barbados had become populated with so many windmills that the island had the second highest density of windmills per square mile in the world, second only to the Netherlands.
In 1966, at age nineteen, Ryun set world records in the mile and the half-mile runs, and received Sports Illustrated magazine's " Sportsman of the Year " award, as well as the James E. Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete, the ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year, and was voted Track & Field News ' Athlete of the Year as the world ’ s best track & field athlete.
Ryun's final season as an amateur in 1972 included the third-best mile of his career ( at the time, also the third fastest in history: a 3: 52. 8 at Toronto, Canada on July 29 ), a 5, 000-meter career best ( 13: 38. 2 at Bakersfield, CA on May 20 ), and an inspiring win in the 1, 500 meters at the U. S. Olympic Trials.
Andover has two golf courses within a mile of each other and one in the southernmost part of the city that, in 2005-2006, was rated the 43rd best golf course in the country by Golf Digest Magazine ..
The area was best known from the 1850s to the early 1900s for the Carmel Grove Campgrounds located about half a mile north of the depot on the east side of Hooper Road, near the intersection of what is now Country Club Road.
His best time for the mile was 1: 53 ( then a world record which stood for three years ), set as a 4-year-old in August 1979 at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
His best time for the mile was 1: 53. 1.
At the 1975 Canadian Pacing Derby he tied for first in a dead heat with Pickwick Baron, and won outright in 1976 and 1977, setting a best time for the mile of 1: 54. 3, a world record at the time.
At the age of 71 years, 5 months and 19 days he qualified 16th setting a personal best speed in the quarter mile with a time of 4. 788 seconds at 319. 98 miles per hour.
Although a quarter mile ( 402 m ) is the best known measure for a drag track, many tracks are eighth mile ( 201 m ) tracks, and the premiere classes will run 1, 000 foot ( 301m ) races.
Rated at, the F platform's best 1 / 4 mile times would be just inside 16-seconds at.
They tested a Cobra equipped with the 429 CJ, C-6 automatic, 3. 50: 1 gears, and were only able to turn a best quarter mile time of about 15 seconds at.
The closest and probably best site is Newhaven Fort, a 5 mile diversion from the path, which is an attraction that houses many World War 2 artefacts and documents with impressive examples of the huge cannons used in coastal defence.
His best time of 1: 52. 1 for the mile was taken as a three-year-old in a race in Springfield, Illinois ; this time set the world record for trotters.
As a middle-distance runner at the school, his personal best was 4: 10 mile, winning varsity letters for track in 1957, 1958, and 1959.
El Guerrouj set two world indoor records at the start of the 1997 season, starting with a 1500 m record of 3: 31. 18 at the Sparkassen Cup and setting a new indoor best of 3: 48. 45 in the mile run at the Indoor Flanders meeting a few weeks later.
In 1975 he ran a personal best 3: 52. 2 in the mile, finishing second to Filbert Bayi ( who broke Ryun's world record in that race by 0. 1 second with a 3: 51. 0 ), and set a United States record of 8: 17. 12 in the 2 mile.
One of the first magazine articles to offer NSX test data showed the lightweight 3. 0L NSX producing a best 0-60 mp / h time of 5. 03 seconds and 13. 47 seconds for the quarter mile.
Prefontaine's freshman and sophomore years were described as unspectacular, managing a 5: 01 mile personal best in his first year.

best and up
And one of the best services available to the people who try to raise and can meat, to plant, grow vegetables and put them up.
One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.
) is for the most part a recondite affair, for manifestly, if everyone in the world who could afford the best wines also liked them, the supply would dry up in no time at all.
That made up for the `` best '' motel in Norman, Okla., where the proprietor knocked $2 off the $8.50 tab when we found ants in the pressed-paper furniture.
As a short, possibly not the best method, I looked up `` Word '' in the Concordance and noted that the Bible claims from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 to be God's personal message to man.
Magnesium sulfate is therefore best applied at night with a sterile dressing covering it, the rupture itself is not painful but the drawing up may be uncomfortable.
In the 1974 – 75 series, with the England team breaking up and their best batsman Geoff Boycott refusing to play, Australian pace bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee wreaked havoc.
" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.
The best measurements available ( from WMAP ) show that the data is well-fit by a Lambda-CDM model in which dark matter is assumed to be cold ( warm dark matter is ruled out by early reionization ), and is estimated to make up about 23 % of the matter / energy of the universe, while baryonic matter makes up about 4. 6 %.
Although the " self-important rhetoric and whines of persecution " on the part of cyberpunk fans were irritating at worst and humorous at best, Brin declares that the " rebels did shake things up.
Chiang's commitment to the Second United Front was nominal at best, and it was all but broken up in 1941.
In addition, some scholars contend that China has never operated under a decentralized democratic regime in its several thousand years of history, and therefore it can be argued that the present political structure, albeit not up to Western moral or political standards, is the best possible option when compared to the alternatives.
By a strange twist of their respective fates, this foursome ends up partnering together, using their unique talents to become a ragtag team of bounty hunters, although their fortunes as such are at best mixed.
When Danny Kaye heard about the accident, he immediately flew his own plane to McCarran Airport to pick up Schoen and bring him back to Los Angeles to guarantee the best medical attention.
Disappointed at not being able to stay at Berkeley, Sapir devoted his best efforts to other work, and did not get around to write up any of the Yana material for publication until 1910, to Kroeber's deep disappointment.
The group is ambiguous between reformism and revolution, leaving it up to each party to decide on the manner they deem best suited to achieve these aims.
Another summary, of the period prior to the Schola, also appeared in 1911: the, which was a kind of compilation of the best of what he had written up to 1903.
Although D. W. Griffith did not invent any new film techniques, he was the best film director working up to 1913, and this was because he made better dramatic and artistic use of the medium than other directors.
In a ranking of the best films produced in Asia by Sight & Sound, Japan made up eight of the top twelve, with Tokyo Story ranked number one.
The Marlins finished 79 – 83, second best season in team history up to that time, but their fifth straight losing season since winning the World Series.
* Ivan Rodriguez ( 2003 ) — Despite only playing one season with the Marlins, he put up some the of the best offensive and defensive statistics by a Marlins catcher and was a key cog in the 2003 World Championship team.

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