Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many toy companies say that they had good reason to jump into the cosmetics business. "We've been losing girls for years," explains Hasbro Vice President Stephen Schwartz. "They're buying records and jeans; they're much more sophisticated than they used...
...newly arranged by Sir David Willcocks, director of the Royal College of Music, who worked the oceanic swell of that great melody into a kind of coda of moral grandeur. As the anthem died, cheers penetrated the thick cathedral walls as if the world outside had got a celebratory jump on the congregation...
Usually, venture capital firms take a block of stock in exchange for start-up money in a new company. The venture capitalists may own as much as 60% of a firm's outstanding shares, which then often jump in value when the new company goes public...
...complete its long-awaited economic reform blueprint. A foreshadowing of the plan came three days after the end of the congress, when the head of the government's price commission announced a series of proposed price hikes that would triple most food bills. Bread, for example, would jump from 21? to 64? a loaf. Simultaneously, the government will not be raising wages. The squeeze could turn out to be intolerable-and create even more unrest than before-although low- and middle-income Poles would be partially shielded from these increases by state subsidies. At the same time, the government...
Klutzy and learned, embarrassing and quizzical, eloquently obsessed with inarticulacy-such was Guston's art. "Human consciousness moves," he remarked in the mid-'60s, "but it is not a leap: it is one inch. One inch is a small jump, but that jump is everything. You go way out, and then you have to come back-to see if you can move that inch." As the paintings prove, he could...