Word: jumped
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Without a professor since Casey Stengel, baseball last week persuaded the president of Yale University, A. Bartlett ("Hit them where they aren't") Giamatti, to jump to the National League. As the commissioner of baseball is a reformed travel agent, and the president of the American League is a retired cardiologist, the choice of an English teacher to replace Chub Feeney made a surprising kind of sense, though Chub has never hurried away from a press conference to deliver a lecture on Machiavelli...
...fairness to the Socialists, they did prepare some of the groundwork for Chirac's reforms. After a disastrous jump in prices, Mitterrand's party in 1983 adopted a more pragmatic, market-oriented program that brought down inflation from a 1981 high of 14% to about 4% last year. Chirac's regime also inherited a much improved energy outlook. The recent decline in world oil prices will lop $9 billion off France's 1986 bill for petroleum imports. These trends, plus Chirac's initiatives, have increased business confidence. In the past twelve months, stocks on the Bourse have enjoyed a spectacular...
Rather, Scott will travel from town to town, making his living hitting a small yellow ball over a net with an oversize racquet. Scott will play tennis on the "satellite" tour of small tournaments in hope of making an eventual jump to fame, fortune and the tennis big leagues...
...almost like an imposed coin-flip," Levy says. "We didn't have a burning desire to jump into terrorist warfare against Americans...
...peripheral nerves. However, he says that alpha interferon--which is known to be useful in combatting some AIDS-related cancers--may prove valuable in combination with other anti-viral drugs. "[AZT] may turn out to be more useful," he says, "although I don't think we should jump to any premature conclusions...