Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inflation, thus allowing Reagan to claim that he has in effect "frozen" expenditures in real terms and cut them $32 billion below what would be paid out if all Government programs continued unchanged. But the so-called freeze would be extremely uneven. After adjustment for inflation, military outlays would jump 9%. Civilian spending in real terms would drop 3%, but only if the Administration is correct in calculating that even a creeping economic recovery will reduce payments for unemployment compensation and farm-price supports by $15 billion. That drop is not included in the $32 billion of expenditure savings because...
...Captain Calvin Dixon led the Crimson chase, speeding up the tempo of the Harvard offense with spin shots from inside the key, underhand scoop layins and jump shots off the dribble. Dixon hit a team-high 19 points on the night, leading an offense that had sputtered in the first period of play to a 47-point stanza and its first Ivy win since the Dartmouth game in early January...
...Harvard jumping corps had a fine day as Jimmy Johnson and Gus Udo took second and third in the long jump. Udo and Shawn Hall finished second and fourth in the triple jump, and Mark Henry tied for third in the high jump by clearing...
When Trout left the game, the Elis no longer had to concentrate their defensive manpower, and the Harvard offense collapsed. Before Trout's departure, though, the sagging defense had left Crimson guards open for perimenter jump shots...
...existence within the major plot. Action and dialogue on the surface tend to seem pedantic, existing for thematic purpose alone and turning the film into a nihilist morality play. When Mauro has to interrogate Giovanni, a young man who is suspected of having convinced a former mistress to jump out of a window, the legal paraphernalia inevitably gives way to philosophical probing. "Why was I born?". "What is the meaning of life?" Obsessed with such questions, Mauro begins to ponder convincing Marta to commit suicide. The acquaintance with the young man finishes off Mauro's already rickety defenses against...