Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, Polaroid insists that it has few regrets. Says a spokesman: "We may have lost some good people, but we eliminated the need for a major layoff." More and more managers seem to agree that it is easier to let employees jump through open windows than to try shoving them out the door...
...winning in our society is most clearly seen in sports. In the real world victory is often a muddled quantity, but in athletics it's simple to distinguish winners from losers. Winners are the ones who score the most points or goals or runs, who run the fastest, who jump the highest or farthest, or who take the most sets. And he losers are the ones...
...general, leaders of the minority student organizations are pleased with the new wells of cash but have some specific complaints, political as well as bureaucratic, about the hoops they feel they have to jump through to get the funds...
Harvard's Doug Boyd qualified for the IC4A's with a high jump of 6-ft., 10 1/4-in. last weekend in a non-scoring meet against Dartmouth. Dwayne Jones set Harvard records in the 440-yd. and 500-m. races...
...they show any great mastery of the battlefield discipline necessary to repel a hypothetical Corinthian advance. The 528 Honduran paratroopers dropped into the war-game zone, for example, spent two full hours attempting to regroup into companies. When one trooper was slightly injured during a faulty jump, other members of his battalion stood idly by rather than carrying him off for medical aid. In public, U.S. military officers had only good things to say about the doleful Honduran performance. But a ranking U.S. officer admitted: "They have a very long way to go before they can be rated as capable...