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Word: jump (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets have a vigorous ABM research program of their own, including work on technologies like laser beams. Their radar at Krasnoyarsk could very well turn out to be part of an ABM network. They are poised on the starting line - and perhaps ready to jump the gun - if the U.S. seems committed to a space race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Questions About Soviet Cheating | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...field events, the women he'll have his eyes on are junior Jackie Boudreau in the high jump, Moore in the long jump and freshmen Jennifer St. Louis and Jane Grim in the throwing and leaping events respectively...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Thinclads Travel to West Point Today, Haggerty Has 'High Hopes' for Season | 12/1/1984 | See Source »

Admissions officers continue to send Indian students to reservations around the country to convince fellow Native Americans to make the jump. One problem with recuiting on the reservation is that Indians must move from a position where they are in the majority to a place where they are a small minority, says Jennifer D. Carey '78, director of minority recuitment at the admissions office...

Author: By Nicholas P. Caron, | Title: American Indians at Harvard | 11/28/1984 | See Source »

...there must be something to these inelegant pep rallies, some reason millions of normal citizens jump up and down in town halls and public squares, and shout themselves hoarse for candidates they can barely hear, saying things they all have heard before. Go get 'im, Fritz! Four more years! Maybe they're cheering the system. Maybe they're cheering themselves. Odd to think that at the center of the orgy lies the center of the country, the nation's history and reason for being resuscitated and kept alive in the tooting of a horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: A national campaign is better than the best circus. | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

With its new found lull-cm-to-sleep and ambushem-in-the-waning-seconds tactics. Yale has rebounded from last year's 1-9 disaster to jump into undisputed third place in the Ancient Eight...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Back on the fast track | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

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