Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other big change in demographics is the jump in women purchasers. According to estimates by Christopher Cedergren, a California auto analyst, five years ago the number of female buyers was negligible; now they are 24% of the market. Their attraction to the rugged vehicles ranges from the romantic to the practical. "It probably serves as a psychological boost for me to not feel as citified as I am," explains Nora Kelly, 29, an attorney in a conservative Albuquerque law firm and owner of a lipstick-red Wrangler. "Even $ if you're wearing a suit, the jeep is ready to take...
Staging a play at the Adams House swimming pool is a clever idea, though the lighting there is so bad that it is difficult to see even the actors' facial expressions. The actors do get to jump in the pool occasionally and thrash about on innertubes and rubber rafts. Its mildly amusing, as is the production's Joan Crawford-sized obsession with coat hangers...
...course, all rhetorical questions should be quickly responded to before the speaker has time to continue. For instance, if the teacher says '...one must wonder just what is the nature of art and its relationship to life?...' You must quickly jump to action with some obvious truism such as, 'Well, isn't art, in a way, an imitation of life? I mean in a sense isn't it true that in a symbolic sense we can see ourselves in art? You can continue in this vain until someone threatens...
...many dramatic critics would point out that it was a direct steal from Shakespeare? But it is. It's straight out of the first scene of the third act of Macbeth. If a new symphony contained that much of a quotation from Beethoven or Wagner, the music critics would jump all over the composer...
Patterned after Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika (restructuring), the reforms call for laying off more than 3,000 government employees, granting greater freedom to state-owned companies and allowing prices to jump by slashing subsidies. Gaining voter approval for the program could prove difficult. In an official survey, almost a third of those questioned said efforts to improve the economy would further reduce living standards, which are already below 1975 levels...