Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest city and has no vice-presidential ambitions. Says Texas Democratic Chairman Robert Slagle: "She's a darn good mayor, a very impressive woman and smart as a whip. But I think people are going to be a little bit reluctant to buy the idea that you can jump from mayor to the vice presidency or presidency...
...Chicago, the harried Continental Illinois Bank had to dip deep into the largest rescue fund ever arranged for a U.S. lender. In Washington, D.C., World Bank officials warned that the latest jump in American interest rates will add $1.25 billion a year to the Third World's already crushing debt. In Paris, European moneymen lashed out at rising U.S. borrowing costs. On both sides of the Atlantic last week, such concerns were sending shock waves through the money world. Said Bank Analyst Stephen Berman of L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin: "The U.S. banking system is suffering from a crisis...
...world's third leading banking center, behind New York City and London, and cause economic catastrophe. Nikolaus Senn, head of the Union Bank, Switzerland's largest financial institution, maintained that foreign funds would flee the country, leading to a collapse in Swiss stock prices, a jump in interest rates and the loss of thousands of jobs...
...Gregg Sutter, had collected interviews with dealers and policemen and delivered 180 sequential photographs of the entire town. The American speech that lends authenticity to every page comes from every source: "I'll be watching a prison documentary on TV and some guy will say, 'Right from Jump Street I ran a number on 'em, man.' That goes into the novel...
...game of musical chairs, but with a reverse twist: there are too many chairs and not enough players. At any given moment, the number of major conductors in the world is insufficient to accommodate the opera companies and orchestras that are clamoring for their services. The top maestros jump from podium to podium to fill the gaps and often hold more than one job at a time; Abbado, for example, also conducts the London Symphony, and next year Previn will add London's Royal Philharmonic to his duties...