Word: jumped
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...rhetoric referred not to war or natural disaster but to something equally momentous: Latin America's $350 billion debt burden. Since the beginning of the year, the pressure on both the borrowers and the American banks that lent them much of the money has grown sharply. A 2% jump in interest rates has hit Latin countries with a potential increase of $5 billion in annual interest payments. Meanwhile, big-city banks in the U.S. have taken a beating on Wall Street as investors grow more worried about whether the Latin debts will ever be repaid. Says Rimmer de Vries...
...precedent that might lure still more aliens across the border in the hope that if they could evade the INS long enough, they too might someday become legal residents. Immigration experts in Texas apprehensively note that in the past, false rumors of amnesty have spurred an immediate jump in the numbers of aliens heading north...
...neither run nor jump with the best athletes in the game, but he senses where to run and when to jump before any of the rest. In no other way does he seem sophisticated, but his basketball instincts are what lift the Boston team above its talent...
Everyone on deck was catapulted into the dark, heaving sea. "As she went under I levered myself onto the rail and was swept clear as she went under me," Sefton remembers. "As I stood on the poop rail I thought, 'Jump!' I went under water for a few seconds. A life raft was 30 ft. away. I thought, 'Oh God, swim!' " The orange rafts were designed to eject and inflate automatically in an emergency, and they did. Clifton McMillan, 16, of Fairfield, Conn., who had just finished his watch when the squall hit, managed to jump...
...corporate credo. "If you want to innovate, to change an enterprise or a society," he says, "it takes people willing to do what's not expected." That policy has paid off in the constant technological improvement of Schlumberger's exploration techniques during his tenure, and a jump in the firm's annual profits from $27.1 million to $1 billion...