Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zookeepers and other city workers ended when the city and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees reached agreement on a new contract that made a mockery of Mayor William D. Schaefer's vow to hold pay increases to 6%. Garbage men's salaries will leap 20%%, from $3.42 an hour to $4.12, by July 1975, while policemen's will soar 22%, to a maximum of $ 13,500 a year...
...start of his eight-day leap-frog tour from Washington to Brussels to Moscow, Nixon was still suffering from phlebitis, an inflammation of a vein that he had first noticed in his left leg when he began his Middle East tour two weeks earlier. Though the pain had disappeared-Press Secretary Ron Ziegler said that Nixon likened it to that of a deep bruise-the President nonetheless had to elevate the leg on his plane and in the privacy of his quarters on the ground. While phlebitis can be dangerous, even fatal if the clot moves to the lungs...
Against a dark background, a pinkish ovarian follicle swells until an egg bursts forth and sails along the convoluted lining of the fallopian tube like a miniature moon over a mountain range. Sperm, their tails thrashing, cluster together like salmon awaiting a signal to leap a waterfall. Cells, pulsing with life, divide and reproduce. Finally, in a scene reminiscent of the fadeout of 2001, a fetus, its already human form visible through a transparent amniotic sac, fills the screen. These spectacular images (see following pages) are not the products of a Hollywood special effects department. They are frames from...
...interlocking Japanese business empire. It has no legal authority to tell its 110 trade and industrial-association members what to do. But its policy "guidelines" are rarely ignored. Lately, though, Keidanren has been accused by environmentalists of failing to stop pollution, and by consumerists of allowing prices to leap...
...academic preparedness." But ultimately the only sure safeguard would rest in the attitude adopted by the seminars' participants and the tone set by their originators. If they fall back on the familiar and myopic goal of grooming future academics, the best laid structural plans may go awry. A "great leap forward" would then become just another cautious step in the wrong direction...