Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's fragile political position demand quick action. Indeed, at week's end the Administration reported that the Consumer Price Index for February had risen an alarming 1.2%, the largest monthly jump in the cost of living since 1974. If that rate were to continue, inflation would leap 15.4% in twelve months. Carter had predicted an increase...
Captain Geoff Stiles, who won the national champtionship in the pole vault with a galactic 17-ft. 3-in. leap, leads the thinclads into a season that begins with a training excursion to Florida later this week and concludes with a trip to England where a combined Harvard-Yale team will face a combined squad from Cambridge and Oxford...
...thinclad's biggest power rests with the field events. Senior long jumper Kathy Rice leads a talented group of jumpers and Rice, the high point-grabber for the team during the indoor season, holds the University record in her event with an 18-ft. 1-in. leap...
...companies seem, destined to reap an absolute embarrassment of riches. According to projections by Wall Street's Paine Webber Inc., Ashland Oil, the nation's largest independent refiner, will see first-quarter profits leap by 517% over last year's earnings; one reason is the deals that the firm has been rushing to slap together during the crisis. Last week Ashland eagerly paid an exorbitant price, about $19.50 per bbl. for 300,000 tons of Iranian crude, even though the company's inventories are all but overflowing. Ashland executives had no firm idea of what...
...vulnerable as ever to upheavals in faraway lands. All winter long the turmoil in Iran has brought chilling reminders of that fact, and last week came some of the scariest yet. It was hard to tell which were more frightening: signs that oil prices were about ready to leap again, or Washington's seeming impotence and inaction...