Word: jump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jump in the overall crime rate was greater than those recorded in Boston, Fall River and New Bedford, and slightly smaller than the increase in Springfield, the only other cities in Massachusetts with populations above...
...champion high-jumper might experience. "That second when you clear the bar in mid-air you lose consciousness," he says. "It is something physical, animal, beyond control. A moment later you are back on the ground and in full control." The haunting, universal fear that some day he will jump and miss?"that I shall open my mouth and no sound will come out" ?gives Pavarotti the whim-whams before every performance. In 1972 he made a transatlantic call to Beverly Sills about their upcoming appearance in I Puritani, arguing that their last-act duet, with its punishing high...
...Wimbledon two years ago. At 20, he has not bothered to assume the icy demeanor of a Borg of the gentlemanly habits of Smith or Ashe. He plays like he's still on the junior circuit, where there are usually no linesmen to handle disputes, no crowd to jump on his every comment, no reporters to write columns like this...
Baryshnikov at Work by Mikhail Baryshnikov (Knopf; $11.95). The Russian dancer's apolitical descriptions of the roles he has played. It should be read in conjunction with To Dance: The Autobiography of Valery Panov (Knopf; $15), another refugee who knew when to jump...
Another way to improve morale is to liberalize promotions. Cantor says it is relatively easy for employees to move within non-exempt salary grades--one-third of Harvard's open positions are filled from within--but that the jump from secretarial or clerical work to administrative or professional jobs is a problem. "The trouble is that moving up in that area the number of positions becomes devilishly limited," Cantor says. A typical Harvard department might have ten office workers and one administrator, but an industry would have larger departments, with a foreman, three assistant foremen, six supervisors and many assistant...