The project began to lose speed with the 1929 stock market crash on Wall Street, which reverberated throughout the Western world and took away Kahn's fortune.

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After the speed horses lose steam, here come the stalkers.

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Fernando, with the front-left tire, if you lose balance around this place, the speed is very high in that second sector and it's very hard for the driver to do something.

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All the other Shinkansen routes in Japan lose cart-loads of cash, as high-speed trains do elsewhere in the world.

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But he said some towns - such as Nuneaton in Warwickshire - would lose out, as, in order to maintain their speed, fewer trains would stop there.

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The high-speed wireless carrier, which is majority-owned by Sprint, continues to lose oodles of money.

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I've opted not to lose any sleep over this dilemma for now, as the prospect of a high-speed rail line seems impossibly distant.

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Real Madrid star striker Karim Benzema was clocked driving 216 kilometers per hour (about 134 mph) -- more than double the speed limit -- before dawn on February 3 on a Madrid highway, and he could lose his license for at least a year, a Traffic Directorate spokeswoman told CNN.

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