Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy in any way. I have a basic distrust of the man." Ithaca Magazine Editor Bryant Robey, 39, regarded his ballot for Kennedy as a "message to Carter that I no longer know where he stands on the issues. Leadership is not taking a poll and trying to jump ahead...
...Olympic champion's hero. The gold medals he won in track and field in 1936 meant something to every athlete. The Olympics that year were held in Nazi Germany, and Jesse Owens, U.S. entrant, won four gold medals in the 100-meter, 200-meter, broad jump and 400-meter relay...
...laying off police and firemen. Finance Director Edward De Seve figures that an end to revenue sharing would cost the city an extra $50 million to $55 million; making up that sum might require a 17% increase in city real estate taxes, on top of a 20% jump already contemplated. De Seve insists that Carter and Congress should target budget cuts on what he derisively calls the "OPEC states," principally Alaska, California, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, which are collecting huge revenues from oil production...
...even from frequent contact. No one working there has ever contracted leprosy, though fears of contagion were once so great that certain areas of the institution were placed strictly off-limits to patients. In those days patients used to joke about walking into administrative buildings to see who would jump out the windows...
Every reaction should have an equal and opposite reaction, but the recent 21-per-cent jump in the value of Harvard's endowment will not affect the daily operations of the University--including tuition levels--at all, at least for several years...