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  Richard Nakka's Experimental Rocketry Site
As well, the A-100M is intended primarily for use with the contemporary sugar propellants, such as KNDX and KNSB.
For the A-100M motor, the Kn is nearly neutral, being slightly regressive.
Since both ends of the A-100M grain are exposed to burning, and thus the length of grain continually shortens over the duration of the burn, the Kn profile is regressive.
www.nakka-rocketry.net /A-100M.html   (1961 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: 100m   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The reigning 100 m world record holder is often named "the fastest man/woman in the world", and the 100m Olympic title is usually considered among the most prestigious.
A distance of 100 yards (91 m) was often run in the past, but this is now obsolete.
100m runners often play psychological games such as trying to be last to the starting blocks, although direct intimidation would be considered unsporting.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/100m   (927 words)

  
 British Sport Car - Austin Healey LeMans 100M Car Registry - Purpose
The Goal of this Registry is to locate and identify as many of the original factory-built Austin Healey 100M "Le Mans" cars as are still in existence and to register all 100's converted to the "Le Mans" configuration.
Bill had searched nationwide to purchase his own factory 100M and he realized how helpful it would be to know who owed these cars.
Following the purchase of his Factory Built 100M in 1994 Bill found there was a lot of knowledge about this special performance car out there, it just needed to be brought together.
www.100mregistry.com /purpose3.html   (601 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 100m more must survive on $1 a day
More than 100m people in the world's poorest countries will be dragged below the basic subsistence level of a dollar a day by 2015 as they become ensnared in globalisation's poverty trap, the UN warned yesterday.
An in-depth study into the world's 49 least developed countries rejects claims that globalisation is good for the poor, arguing that the international trade and economic system is part of the problem, not the solution.
The report to which we referred in an article, 100m more must survive on $1 a day, is The Least Developed Countries Report, 2002: Escaping the Poverty Trap.
www.guardian.co.uk /globalisation/story/0,7369,739897,00.html   (821 words)

  
 Lenton primed for flying 100m final | The Courier-Mail
Of the five individual events on her schedule this week, Lenton has made no secret that the 100m sprint remains the race closest to her heart – and for good reason.
The 100m freestyle is the third of her five individual events.
She placed second in the 100m butterfly behind Jessicah Schipper and missed qualification in the 200m freestyle after narrowly missing a top-two finish.
www.news.com.au /couriermail/story/0,23739,20891395-10389,00.html   (563 words)

  
 Schipper storms home in 100m fly - Swimming - Commonwealth Games - smh.com.au
She held off Lenton heading into the wall to win the 100m butterfly, but she said she didn't notice her teammate's charge to the finish such was her focus.
The 20-year-old Australian was unable to hold onto his slender lead in the freestyle leg and was narrowly touched out for silver by Dale, with only 0.09seconds separating silver and bronze.
The third Australian in the field, Kenrick Monk — the man elevated to the 100m and 200m freestyle after Ian Thorpe withdrew due to illness — finished seventh in 49.94 seconds.
www.smh.com.au /news/swimming/schipper-storms-home-in-100m-fly/2006/03/19/1142703211285.html   (970 words)

  
 Review: 10M switched vs. 100M shared, 3/9/98
With shared 100M bit/sec technology, you'll get inordinately high collision rates when the network is heavily loaded, resulting in more bandwidth being consumed for retransmissions.
When attached to the 100M bit/sec hub, workstations capable of putting 45M bit/sec of traffic on the network were reduced to just under 1M bit/sec, while those we clocked at 99M bit/sec were only grabbing 18M bit/sec.
Because it was constrained by collisions, the 100M bit/sec hub successfully pushed only 598M bytes to clients during the test run, while the server averaged 80M bit/sec of throughput across the hub's shared backplane.
www.networkworld.com /reviews/0309rev.html   (1667 words)

  
 Sprint Training - Important Principles for Running Speed and Acceleration 100m, 200m & 400m
The aim once again is for the athlete to never exceed 10% faster than natural as there are no extra benefits and a very high risk of injury.
One of my athlete capable of about 11.87 for 100m can run 5.00 from her first movement over 40m from a standing start.
To optimize speed over 100m means conserving neural ability by decreasing cadence early in the race.
www.oztrack.com /sprint.htm   (2376 words)

  
 Stars of the pool at the US Olympic trials - Swimming -
She is the only woman to swim the 100m backstroke in under one minute, and one of only four swimmers to have gone under 54s for 100m freestyle.
She is the fifth-fastest ever in 100m butterfly and sixth-fastest in 100m freestyle.
Became first man to break 51s in 100m butterfly (longcourse) in beating Phelps to win the world title last year, and swam the fastest butterfly relay split in history at those titles, helping the US to gold in the 4x100m medley relay.
www.theage.com.au /olympics/articles/2004/07/06/1089694342786.html?from=moreStories   (469 words)

  
 Lenton breaks 100m record - Swimming - Sport - smh.com.au
LIBBY Lenton's time of 52.99 seconds for the 100m freestyle at the Duel in the Pool last night is expected to be ratified as a world record.
The Australian speedster was in the lead-off leg against American superstar Michael Phelps in a mixed relay when she went 0.31s under German Britta Steffen's mark in Sydney.
Lenton first broke the 100m record in 2004 (53.66) but lost it, and the Olympic gold medal to, compatriot Jodie Henry at the Athens Olympics.
www.smh.com.au /news/swimming/lenton-breaks-100m-record/2007/04/03/1175366243991.html   (319 words)

  
 Women's Sports Foundation ATHLETES
She also took bronze in the 100m freestyle and the 100m butterfly, as well as earning silvers in the 400m freestyle and medley relays.
She was named to the USA Swimming’s Women’s 2002 All-America team in the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle and 100m butterfly.
At the 1999 Pan Pacific Championships, she won six gold medals (100m and 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly, 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle relay and 4x100m medley relay).
www.womenssportsfoundation.org /cgi-bin/iowa/athletes/record.html?record=845   (465 words)

  
 ABC Sport - Swimming - Lenton smashes 100m freestyle world record
Australia's Libby Lenton broke the world record in the women's 100m freestyle at the Duel in the Pool swim meet between Australia and the United States on Tuesday evening.
He clocked 48.79 to win the 100m freestyle ahead of Australia's Eamon Sullivan (49.37) and fellow American Cullen Jones (49.76), then beat compatriot Aaron Peirsol and Australia's Ephraim Hannant to win the 200m backstroke in a time of 1:56.29.
The Australian came back to win the 200m breaststroke ahead of the USA's Rebecca Soni and said she was determined to strike back after losing the 100m.
www.abc.net.au /sport/content/200704/s1888959.htm   (637 words)

  
 Right To Play: Right To Play - Our Athletes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He is currently the world record holder for the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle events and is a member of the world record relay team for 4 x 100m and the 4 x 200m freestyle relays.
At the 2001 Australian Championships, Ian won his first national 100m title and he became the first man since John Konrads, 40 years ago, to win every freestyle event from 100m to 800m at a National Championship.
He also won silver in the 100m backstroke which was an exciting result given it is Ian’s newest event.
www.righttoplay.com /site/PageServer?pagename=ian   (581 words)

  
 Belfast Telegraph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
More than 5,000 former and serving police officers, allegedly traumatised by 30 years of terrorist atrocities in Northern Ireland, have launched a legal bid for compensation.
The Government faces paying out £100m in damages if the men and women involved succeed in their case.
Stephen Irwin QC said that prior to the establishment of the Occupational Health Unit within the RUC in 1986, senior RUC management had been lectured by key specialists on post-traumatic stresses in early 1984.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk /news/story.jsp?story=668543   (401 words)

  
 RTE Business - Greenstar raises €100m for expansion
Waste management company Greenstar, formerly known as Celtic Waste, has raised €100m in debt finance facilities for its continuing programme of capital investment.
The five-year loan was led by Bank of Ireland, and includes AIB, Ulster Bank, Bank of Scotland (Ireland) and IIB Bank.
Earlier this year, Greenstar said it had invested €100m in acquisitions and infrastructure development since its establishment in 2000.
www.onbusiness.ie /2003/0513/ntr.html   (108 words)

  
 Thorpe third in 100m semi-final - Swimming -
Ian Thorpe in action during the 100m freestyle semi-final.
Popov has more Olympic freestyle gold medals than any other man with four, after victories in the 50m and 100m freestyle at both the 1992 and '96 Olympics.
Thorpe will be battling just to make the medal dais in the 100m.
www.theage.com.au /olympics/articles/2004/08/18/1092508490770.html   (253 words)

  
 100m Bible Dash
If you read each half percent in 1 day, you will finish on or before the 200th day, you are qualified for a Gold medal rank together with your record listed for your "100m Bible Dash".
And you are eligible to write an "Gold medal finisher's essay", and the manager will give a personal congratulation so far as possible.
Always quote post your starting date with your starting percentage, and your current percentage (and your hopeful message) on the special "100m Bible Dash" Message Board.
groups.msn.com /100mBibleDash   (434 words)

  
 Austin Healey 100M
This led to the production of the Le Mans 100M variation of the BN2 and this Le Mans specification kit was only available with the BN2.
To be registered, the car must have a minimum specification of 1.75 inch H 6, S.U. carburetors, be fitted with special inlet manifolds, cold air box and air tube, a factory style louvered hood and a Le Mans regulation strap.
The 100M is finished in the standard duo-tone paint.
www.mathewscollection.com /former/Former_Austin_Healey.htm   (576 words)

  
 Synthmuseum.com - Roland : System 100m
The 100m is totally unlike the System 100, both in appearance and sound.
The sound of the 100m is said to be "thinner" and more precise than the 100.
The 100m is more truly modular, with a series of different modules which are bolted into a rack (see picture below of a patched System 100m courtesy of Benjamin Ward).
www.synthmuseum.com /roland/rolsys100m01.html   (423 words)

  
 Firefox hits 100m downloads | The Register
Yup it's party time and fans of the open source browser are invited to upload their celebratory snaps here.
Because of this it would be unwise to conclude there are anything approaching 100m Firefox users out there.
The first full version of Firefox was released in early November 2004 and celebrated 50m downloads around six months ago in late April 2005.
www.theregister.co.uk /2005/10/20/firefox_100m_downloads   (366 words)

  
 People's Daily Online -- Powell not to run 100m in Athens IAAF World Cup
World 100m record holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica will run on a relay instead of the 100m sprint at the 10th IAAF World Cup event in Athens, his manager said here on Monday.
Powell, who was selected as the Americas representative in the men's 100m, will not line up for the "Fastest Man" race, said manager Paul Doyle.
Powell has run 12 100m races of less than 10 seconds this season, including twice equalling his world record of 9.77 seconds.
english.people.com.cn /200609/12/eng20060912_301980.html   (213 words)

  
 Olympics Athletes - CBS SportsLine.com
He ignited Tennessee’s 2001 NCAA team title run by winning the 100m and 200m dashes, becoming the first freshman to get double victory in those events at the NCAA Outdoors since 1976.
He also was part of the school record 4x100m relay team that finished second in 38.38…Gatlin was named the SEC Track Freshman of the Year both Indoors and Outdoors.
2000: 3rd in 100m at FootLocker National Outdoor Champs (10.36) … won 100m, 110m hurdles and 300m hurdles and was third in LJ at Florida state meet, leading Woodham HS to the team title.
www.sportsline.com /olympics/summer/athletes/athletepage/500520   (472 words)

  
 DFID | Press Release | UK pledges £100m for beeter health in Malawi
As a first step in Britain’s pledge to increase aid to Africa in 2005 the UK Government today announced a six year £100m programme of support to the health service in Malawi.
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) will help provide free antiretroviral treatment for more people living with HIV from next year, fund measures to reduce mother and child deaths and invest in better training and higher salaries for doctors, nurses and other health workers.
DFID’s £100m health package comprises £45m Essential Health Package to reduce child and maternal mortality, to treat AIDS and to help reduce HIV infections and to reduce tuberculosis, plus £55m Emergency Human Resource Programme to attract and retain health workers and to expand training.
www.dfid.gov.uk /news/files/pressreleases/pr-malawi-health-full.asp   (369 words)

  
 Sumitomo to clinch $100m North Sea deal - [Sunday Herald]
JAPAN’S Sumitomo is expected to announce a $100 million deal this week involving the purchase of a stake in the Nelson oilfield from Intrepid Energy, marking the latest stage in a fiercely contested bidding war for Intrepid’s $1billion North Sea portfolio.
A senior industry source, who declined to be named, said Sumitomo has bought a 7% stake in the Nelson field and a 20% stake in the adjacent Howe satellite field for a price “not far short of $100m”.
Sumitomo already has a presence in the North Sea through non-operated interests in the Galley, Sedgwick and Orion fields, but the Nelson deal would be its most significant purchase in the basin yet.
www.sundayherald.com /42005   (809 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Nation / $100m flies out the window
Boston.com / News / Nation / $100m flies out the window
WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department spent an estimated $100 million for airline tickets that were not used over a six-year period and failed to seek refunds even though the tickets were reimbursable, congressional investigators say.
It said the department paid travelers for tickets the department had already bought and reimbursed employees for tickets that had not been authorized.
boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/06/09/100m_flies_out_the_window   (354 words)

  
 Analog Hell - Roland System 100m Modular Synth
"A Flexible System for Today's Creative Musician The System 100m is sold as separate units so that you can build up a system to match your own particular needs.
100m modules are 230mm high by 104mm wide.
Join in the discussion and sign up to the egroup to stay updated.
www.analoghell.com /studio/index.cfm?fuse=100m   (429 words)

  
 Lawyer's fax blunder costs EC €100m - Government & Law - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
A lawyer's failure to operate a fax machine correctly has been blamed for the European Commission losing a multi-million-euro court case.
The European Court of First Instance ruled in favour of five German banks which had been fined a total of €100m by the EC.
In 2001 they had been found guilty of running a cartel to fix foreign currency exchange rates ahead of the introduction of the euro.
management.silicon.com /government/0,39024677,39125036,00.htm   (547 words)

  
 HSI Sports Management - Pierre Browne
Pierre, shockingly, did not discover his talent for running until he was 17 years old.
He wowed coaches and fellow athletes with his instant success in the 100m and 200m as he won the Ontario High School Championships in both events.
Since then Pierre has gone on to capture two 100m Canadian Championships titles and a bronze medal at the Commonwealth games.
www.hsi.net /athletes/?fn=detail&id=31&phpc_sess=0fb1d6e57a4d90b5eef04143e87ba84c   (131 words)

  
 The £100M Google Atom Bomb | Threadwatch.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
If there is a problem with the business model then it can be dealt with while there are still mostly insiders holding the stock rather than Joe Public.
A billionaire has arranged to give $100m to the first person that clicks on a special link that looks like a Google text ad.
In my opinion, you dont need to give $100m away, it could be $1m every couple weeks.
www.threadwatch.org /node/1327   (950 words)

  
 YouTube - 100m
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Melbourne 2007 Swim Men's 100m Butterfly FINAL Phelps
2004 Outdoor CHSAA Track and Field Championships 4 x 100M
www.youtube.com /?v=pTOAuYzhGlA   (65 words)

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