Instead, his big ideas have come and gone with the same bewildering speed as his spin doctors.

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As the water flows downhill, it picks up the speed necessary to spin the turbines in the powerhouse and create electricity.

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Mobile Fluid Recovery then used a massive high-speed drum to spin out all the absorbed oil and waste water from the booms.

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Music-lovers also should check out the Hotel Hof Weissbad (from 270 CHF), the only venue that has Appenzeller music concerts year-round: every Wednesday night is a raucous dancing and music session, where old-timers spin around on the dance floor to high-speed hackbrett.

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In a paper in the Journal of Immunological Methods, Wendy Dittmer of Philips claims to have achieved a 100, 000-fold increase in detection speed by hurrying magnetically tagged molecules of parathyroid hormone towards the spin valve with an electromagnet instead of allowing them to diffuse there.

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When I gave it a spin in Manhattan and Brooklyn, service tended to be pretty fast, though speed and reliability could vary in your hometown.

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The smooth and immediate low-speed power delivery also makes the Electric Defender adept at climbing obstacles without having to spin its wheels unnecessarily, which can damage the environment.

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