Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...results with some distinctly contemporary audio technology and winds up with a sound that invites deejays at local dance palaces to "scratch" the surface. The deejays set the needle down in the groove of a record, turn the disc back and forth and get weird, repeated percussive effects, then jump quickly to another groove, another record, while some rap groups, called MCs, singsong over the music. The result, besides being danceable and extremely def, is familiar and disorienting at once. Just like the clothes...
...process that has sharply reduced OPEC oil production since 1979 can also cause it to rise quickly again-leading to a tight world market in which prices can once again jump substantially. The driving force behind this process is a phenomenon best described as the "OPEC multiplier...
...Harvard students are at a disadvantage in this. It's difficult to think of summer travel until you go home for spring." As most universities have their spring vacations earlier than Harvard, other students get a jump on Harvard travelers...
...matter of seconds, the computer is programmed and ready for typing. There are no codes to memorize, because all instructions are shown on the top of the screen. Yet for all of its simplicity, it is powerful: characters appear and disappear at a keystroke; blocks of text jump quickly from one place to another...
...industry. Orders for steel are picking up. For its part, U.S. Steel plans to fire up an idled blast furnace at its Edgar Thomson works in Pennsylvania, which has not made iron for more than a year. In February, steel production was running at 50.3% of capacity, a huge jump from December...