Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rush of orders is helping to push businessmen into a surge of modernization and expansion. The latest McGraw-Hill survey shows that corporations plan to spend $105.5 billion for new plant and equipment this year, a leap of 19% over last year, and about 5% higher than the Commerce Department was predicting two months ago. In plant investment, says Economist Walter Heller, "we have gone from an expansion to a boomlet to a boom." It should be restrained, he says, by suspending either the investment tax credit or the accelerated depreciation allowance...
...more threats the Americans make, the more intransigent the North Vietnamese will become. The Saigon regime will leap for joy, having been assured that the only violations of the agreement that the United States will not tolerate are those by Saigon's Vietnamese opponents. The Saigon regime has been violating the agreement expressly to determine how easily it can lure Washington back into...
Starburst. In virtually every musical capital of the world, the sight of Solti conducting is a familiar one. It is quite a spectacle: head down, baton held high, tails flying, he seems to spring from the wings. The leap to the podium is agile and sure; the bow to the audience curt, formal and, in the European tradition, from the waist, with the heels brought together in something just this side of a click. At this point, a Stokowski would spin showily and attack immediately. Not Solti. He turns thoughtfully, spreads his feet and shoots slitty glances around to make...
...indeed a struggle-in unexpected ways. The years of conducting with arms carried high in tension, or head held tilted back to watch his performers on operatic nights, have produced extensive muscle damage to Solti's shoulders and neck. If he sometimes does a spectacular 180° leap from the violins way off on the left to the double basses on the right, it is because he has to. "I can not move my head more than a few inches to the left or right without turning my body," he says. There are other problems too. Sold was flailing...
...surge in East-West trade could markedly improve the Soviet economy by bringing in foreign technology-notably computers-and consumer goods. But the Soviet Union will not make the final leap to true consumer affluence until its top political leaders find some way of reconciling central planning, to which they obdurately cling as the distinguishing feature of a socialist economy, with the decentralized industrial decision making that they admire in the capitalist West...