Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last April, Congress took a flying leap in the dark. Responding to pressure from politically powerful oldsters, it raised the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70, although so little study had been done that estimates of the economic and social consequences were only horseback guesses. The move alarmed businessmen, who feared that retaining aging workers would clog the channels of promotion and reduce the hiring of young people, especially women and blacks. But when the law finally went into effect on New Year's Day, the worries had substantially diminished. Many employers now think the law will have...
Bates closed the gap somewhat with a victory in the 440-yd. dash and first and second in the high jump. Bates' Sue MacDougall set a track record in the high jump with a 5-ft. 5-in. leap. But Harvard came right back as Sue Harper took the 60-yd. hurdles in 9.5 seconds. Harper was the only Crimson participant in this event...
...first, the concept of a conference to bring students from 11 different schools together must seem like a quantum leap from the type of unity I'd been referring to before. However, in association with the lack of unity which I perceived, I noted that we also lack experience, ideas and inspiration. We must not forget that other schools face and have faced many similar problems. By bringing students from different schools together, the conference helps to alleviate the lack of experience and ideas which--separately--students at each of the schools seem to feel. They have solved problems which...
...Sinologists eagerly point out, comprehending China's present is impossible without knowing China's past. For example, the dramatic change from the inward-looking policies of Mao's last years to Teng's Great Leap Outward can be seen as merely the latest chapter in a 100-year-old struggle between xenophobic conservatives and Westernizing pragmatists. Reaching further back into history, China has regularly alternated cycles of philistine authoritarianism with eras of great learning and reform...
...theory, it is not a great leap from the North American chili-tortilla parlor to the true provincial cuisine of Mexico. In fact, it would take years for the most diligent gringo to understand or annotate this peasant-rooted cuisine of peppers and cornmeal, arroz, barbacoa and relleno. Diana Kennedy, English by birth and Mexicana by persuasion, invested a large part of her life tasting and testing south of the border to produce The Cuisines of Mexico in 1972. She spent five more years researching the 1978 followup, Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico (Harper & Row; 288 pages...