Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are cheerleaders and there are athletes. Nearly no one but Jackie was both. "From being a cheerleader at the youth center, I knew at the age of nine that I could jump. That's when I started running and jumping off my porch." A firemen's brigade of siblings used a potato-chip bag to "borrow" sand from the center and install a landing pit off the porch. Jackie's main co-conspirator was her older brother Al, whom she could beat at everything. "I didn't have a big brother," Al says. "I had Jackie." Through a fluttering...
...Clearly, he's voted one way on some issues and now changed his position," Walsh said. "My impression is that if [Boston Mayor] Ray Flynn told him to jump off a building, he'd do it, and I think that's not good leadership...
...consolation for U.S. businesses is that companies in competing industrial countries have similar problems. In Western Europe, where air travel increased 8% in 1987 and is expected to jump more than 7% this year, terminals have become mob scenes. At Munich's airport one day this summer, congestion prompted officials to cancel 27 of Lufthansa's 59 domestic flights. A prime cause of the crunch is Europe's fractured air-control system, which is composed of 42 separate civilian control centers, plus additional military jurisdictions...
HELP WANTED: Savvy, hard-nosed strategist desperately needed to jump-start stalled campaign. Experience in overcoming innate caution of button-down Greek candidate a must. Prior misdemeanors no problem. For the right stuff, we will take public guff. Contact Dukakis campaign...
...price jump came sooner than economists had predicted, primarily because some food-processing companies raised their prices before they started paying more for their raw materials. But many producers have not yet hiked their prices; when they do, further retail increases are likely. The devastation of the durum-wheat crop in North Dakota, for example, is bound to result in heavy markups on pasta. The Agriculture Department maintains that the inflation rate for food this year will stay within its predicted range of 3% to 5%, but that forecast is looking increasingly wishful...