Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the summer recess only weeks away, three Democratic members of Congress from Connecticut got a jump on the opposition last week, with an old schoolyard activity, double dutch. (You know, when the two ropes are going in opposite directions.) Congressman William Ratchford, 48, tried his hand, er, feet, while colleagues Samuel Gejdenson, 34, and Barbara Kennedy, 46, waited their turns. "I could practice for the next 40 years and not be able to double jump," says Ratchford, who had difficulty with but one rope. It's safer inside the halls of Congress where the risks of getting tripped...
...point of danger in Beirut. The pool is deep but empty, and there is little room to walk around its sides. By the end of the week one man will have fallen in, severely injuring his head and breaking a leg, while another, in a bizarre decision to jump to his rescue, will have broken...
Often Bechtel's blue-ribbon executives are in a position to provide insights and spot opportunities that give the company a jump on its competitors. For example, last week Company Chairman Stephen Bechtel Jr. recalled that ex-CIA Chief Richard Helms, a Bechtel consultant, was able to help it head off potential losses in Iran in the late 1970s...
...Obie." They have five children and currently live in a colonial home on the campus of Stanford University, where Shultz teaches part-time. When he is not traveling, which is seldom, Shultz tries to be in bed by 10 p.m. so that he can get "his preferred 5 a.m. jump on the day. His main forms of relaxation are swimming, golf (middle 80s) and tennis...
...programs to hook up offices of the future. Says Industry Analyst Jean Yates in San Francisco: "There are a zillion different networking systems. Every company out there will gladly sell you two." The company that develops the system that becomes the industry-wide standard will clearly have a giant jump on its competitors...