Zapata, a Houston oil-and-gas company turned fish-meal producer, announced last month that it was changing its name to the much zippier Zap and planning to enter the Internet world in a big way.
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VW already had a 150-horsepower version of the same 1.8-liter engine available in the New Beetle, but chose to add the zippier engine to try to bring more male buyers into the Bug fold.
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Director Nancy Meyers, part of the writing-producing team behind such comic hits as " Baby Boom " and " Father of the Bride, " makes a zippier, peppier, spunkier " Parent Trap ."
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After unpopular digital initiatives like the clipper chip and the Computer Decency Act, Bill Clinton has finally offered good news for the Internet crowd _ promising $ 100 million next year ( and much more to come ) to seed Internet II, a zippier Info Highway for universities.
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This Chekhov is brighter, more experimental and certainly more energetic _ one might even say zippier, although his use of language, or what seems to be his use of language in Peter Constantine's translations _ still seems the quietly perfect work of a young master.
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The IS 300, with a base sticker of $ 31, 000, is a bit zippier with its 215-horsepower, 3.0-liter in-line six-cylinder engine, and for 2002, it is offered with a manual transmission, too.
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Rather than using the more expensive _ and zippier _ memory from Rambus that's usually found in a Pentium 4-based system, it uses the slower and cheaper SDRAM . But it's still more than enough machine for everyday tasks, burning CDs, casual gaming and educational uses.
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But if you have some acceptable spare hardware ( maybe that Pentium II you just tossed aside in favor of a zippier Athlon screamer ), a sense of adventure and plenty of spare time, tinkering with Linux could provide a perfectly fine, up-to-date system on an older machine, and a deeper understanding of how computers actually work.
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The possible stirrings of a turnaround are the latest twist in a three-year saga during which the company _ once an investor's favorite because of steady growth in profits that hit 1 billion pounds in 1997 _ has wrestled with setbacks as mainly younger female shoppers turned away from its lackluster, midpriced clothes in favor of zippier offerings from rivals like Next and Matalan.
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Now, WebTV and others have decided it makes more sense to integrate an inexpensive RISC computer chip and modem into a television set, transforming it into a better-than-average Internet box . ( WebTV's 33.6-kilobit modem, coupled with some clever programming, actually made the Web a little zippier on my TV than on my modem-equipped PC .)
