Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will tinker and tamper with Ford's energy program in hopes of moderating its inflationary impact. But if, through some legislative miracle, the taxes, tariffs and decontrol measures are enacted as they are now proposed, the average price of crude oil in the U.S. will take a substantial leap from $9 per bbl. to $13. The Federal Energy Administration estimates that the average price of heating oil would rise from the present 38? per gal. to a maximum of 48?, and a gallon of gasoline could race up from its present price of 52? to as high...
...mile Long March in 1934-35 with his childhood friend Mao Tse-tung, Li was named Minister of Heavy Industry after the Communists' 1949 victory. As chief of the State Planning Commission Li marshalled millions of peasants in the abortive industrial phase of the Great Leap Forward (1958-61). Both Mao and the recently hospitalized Chou En-lai attended their old comrade's funeral...
...Mikhail Baryshnikov would be this season's top box office draws in Manhattan. Yet tickets are scarce as unicorns at Manhattan's City Center for American Ballet Theater's 35th anniversary festivities featuring Baryshnikov, the Leningrad Kirov Ballet's latest runaway genius, whose ability to leap and hang serenely in air drives audiences to frenzy. A few blocks south, teenagers, housewives and businessmen -many of whom have never seen ballet before-pour through the doors of Broadway's Uris Theater, where Nureyev propels himself through four ballets at each performance of a four-week...
...consequent leap in the consumer price index. A Senate staffer involved in energy policy claims that Ford is submitting "an unworkable program that can't be enacted." The Administration; he feels, is "out of touch with reality on the Hill...
...delay was significant. The earth's rotation (which forms the basis of time units-hours, minutes, seconds) is gradually slowing down-largely because of tidal friction. For that reason, the timekeepers decided a few years ago to make an occasional correction by inserting a so-called leap second. In that way, the accurate atomic clocks that they rely on to keep the exact time do not get ahead of the less dependable earth. Since leap seconds were introduced in 1972, four have been added, and even more can be expected in the future as the earth continues its gradual...