Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eudora Welty, and they got on the subject of driving. Welty, who was getting up in age, allowed that she continued to drive but that she found propelling herself off the approach ramp onto superhighways particularly difficult, like insinuating yourself into a game of hot pepper, the furiously fast jump-rope play that still goes on in schoolyards everywhere. The sharpness of the image suggested a writer's mind at work, which in fact was the case...
...advertising last year, has ballooned the paper to an average of 111 pages daily, vs. 96 for the New York Times. Each edition is chockablock with lovingly crafted explorations, of subjects ranging from the education of a TV anchor to the buying patterns of Hispanic migrant workers, that jump confusingly from page to page after page. At its best, the Times can be as informative and interpretive as any daily in the English language. At its worst, it seems to reflect a mistaken notion that readers want to spend all day with...
...phone calls from 10? to 30?. Fees for all sorts of services usually taken for granted, or not thought of at all by ordinary users, may go up sharply. A house visit to install a phone would go from $10 to $12. The connection to the central office would jump from $25 to $50. Inside-wire hookup would go from $28.50 to $36, and phone-jack installation from $9 to $14. In addition, the company wants 1½%-a-month interest on bills not paid within 30 days...
...talent hunt is most frantic at the top. The demand for executives making $200,000 or more surged 86% last year, according to the Association of Executive Search Consultants. The trade group also found a 37% jump in assignments to find managers for slots paying from $100,000 to $200,000. Last month a Korn/Ferry survey of 750 major employers across the U.S. showed an estimated 50% first-quarter increase in the hiring of executives earning more than...
Patterson set a Harvard record in the long jump with a 19-ft., 2(1/2)-in. performance, won the 100-meter hurdles in 14.2 seconds and was a member of the victorious 400-meter relay team...