Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard administrator will make the jump from Gutenberg to General Electric this year as he takes over a new librarian post...
Several of the nation's leading universities have already announced price hikes for the 1988-89 school year. Total charges at Columbia University will rise to $18,132, a 5 percent jump over last year's figure. The University of Chicago will raise its tuition by 6.7 percent to $12,930, Princeton will up its tuition by 6.6 percent to $13,380, and fees at Brown will increase by 6.9 percent...
...also known as "Eddie the Eagle," points his toes downslope and fearlessly launches himself on some of the shortest flights known to man. A sweet-tempered cross between fictional Ski Jumpers Spuds MacKenzie and Bob Uecker, Edwards finished dead last (but at least not dead) in the 70-meter jump. He scored with the media and the great unfit majority tuning in with his cheerfully loony answers. (His favorite skier? John Paul II.) After Edwards' promotional appearance at a nightclub, we-are-not-amused British Olympic officials stamped their little feetsies, cried foul, and the most ingenuous interview in town...
Soundly landing the first jump, his trademark 'Tano triple, which adds the gravitational challenge of an upstretched arm to a triple Lutz, Boitano moved through a quick series of military gestures. His recent emphasis on choreography was paying off. Then he glided into a difficult combination jump. As he nailed the landing, his choreographer, Sandra Bezic, started jumping up and down. Even Boitano seemed to let go some of his tension. Only in the final moments, however, did he indulge his mounting exuberance. As he swirled into his final spin, he broke into a radiant smile. Then he came...
There were other setbacks. Alexander Fadeev, a Soviet skater who had been touted for the bronze, stumbled twice, enabling his younger teammate, Viktor Petrenko, to take the medal. And Canadian Kurt Browning braved the one quadruple jump of the Olympic competition, only to fall. U.S. Skater Christopher Bowman finished a solid seventh, and Teammate Paul Wylie, who recovered from two early spills to hand in a graceful performance, placed tenth...