Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instructor Magdalena Hernandez '90. The movements gradually become more complicated, she says. The children pretend to be different animals including a borsch bear which is a really heavy movement", a "cool cat", a "slithery snake where they slither across the floor" and a "fierce fox where they run and jump...
...field events, Harvard's Anne Duderstadt and Megan Young tied for first place in the high jump with leaps of five feet...
Many companies are enlisting technology to get a jump on competitors. To bring inventories closer into line with sales, a growing number of retailers are using the bar-code system pioneered more than a decade ago by the grocery industry. As each item is rung up on the cash register, a company computer reads the product bar code and makes a change in its inventory records. In addition, several chains, including J.C. Penney and May Department Stores, now use private satellite television networks to link their outlets so that individual stores can exchange sales and inventory data with headquarters...
Russell expects junior Chris Sullivan to winthe high jump and Rutledge Simmons to take thetriple jump. Harvard should also sweep thesteepiechase and earn points in the sprints, withefforts from Paul Mayer, Pete Wilensky, David Sonand Mauricio Velez...
Onstage physical stresses can be as fierce as any endured on the football field or basketball court. Actor Mark Frawley, late of Broadway's Starlight Express, had to barrel-jump over five people in the show's opening number. "You're wearing two 4-lb. skates and a costume weighing 25 lbs.," he notes. "In order to clear the people, I had to get my speed up to 35 m.p.h. It was a knee killer." Musicians face peril as well. Pinched nerves and muscle cramps caused by repetitive hand motions are common. Violinists suffer everything from fiddler's neck rash...