Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said the College had decided not to "hastily jump into working on Mather," and instead to "make a real serious, comprehensive effort" to create long range improvements in housing for disabled students...
...Frank and Elaine and Heather--all rational seniors--want to die? But there they were, lined up side by side on the Weeks Bridge in the March pre-dawn, staring into the Charles like derelicts trying to drown the pain of too many lonely nights. Elaine decided to jump first. She dived into the current, came bobbing up out of instinct, and waved to the four on the bridge. Her hair swirled around the Ophelia in denim as the eddies carried her out of sight...
More than a decade after it was forced off campus, the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) is staging a comeback. Through cross-registration at MIT. 41 Harvard students are enrolled in the Army ROTC--a 65 per cent jump from last year--and 29 are in the Air Force program. And this week, on the 12th anniversary of the occupation of University Hall, some ROTC officials are confidently predicting that Harvard will have its own detachment again within six years...
Many economists had expected oil prices to jump even more after decontrol. Price increases, though, were held back a little by the high oil stocks around the world. Walter Heller, former economic adviser to President Kennedy, also pointed out that lower than expected increases in housing and food prices had acted as a brake on inflation, and he foresees less steeply rising prices for a few months...
...January the government made its biggest jump toward private enterprise. The rights to run restaurants and other small businesses that were losing money were auctioned to the public for as much as $100,000. This is high in a country whose 1979 per capita annual income was $3,042. The enterprises remain the property of the state, and their managers must pay a monthly fee to cover social insurance and equipment and building rental. They must also pay competitive wages to workers. But after taxes, the new entrepreneurs may keep whatever profit is left. The system is very similar...