Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country. The auto giant reported first-quarter profits of $800 million, v. $59 million a year earlier-when the auto industry and the whole economy were floundering at the bottom of the nation's worst postwar recession. Although few if any companies matched that 1,200% leap, GM's dazzling performance highlights a happy trend: corporate profits have already rebounded from the slump to near-record levels. Most estimates are that the first-quarter profits of all the nation's companies rose a total 40% to 50% above the 1975 period. The leap, of course, was from...
...Unfinished Woman (1969) and Pentimento (1973), ignored this subject. Yet when the crucial scene in Scoundrel Time comes, it is a laconic anticlimax. The committee seems flummoxed by Hellman's strategy. When the chairman asks that her letter be read into the public record, Hellman's lawyers leap to distribute copies to the assembled reporters. Minutes later a voice is heard in the press gallery: "Thank God somebody finally had the guts to do it." More than a little bewildered, Hellman is dismissed after a mere 67 minutes...
...leap also established new meet, stadium, and University outdoor records. Embree also broke his own mark of 7 ft. 1 1/2 in. set last spring in the Heptagonal championships...
Hassan Kayali, the triple-jump star who normally shares the limelight with his brother Ahmed, had center stage all to himself yesterday. With his older sibling sidelined by a cold, Hassan won the triple jump with a leap...
...half-way mark, Harvard had again managed to pull even with Coast Guard. With 500 to go, the Crimson had a half-length lead. Tired of playing leap frog, the heavies rowed cautious and efficaciously toward the finish...