Word: leape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jesse Jackson ran a campaign for the people at the bottom half, the people who could not respond to Reagan's question because they saw little difference in their situations. There isn't much of a leap from very...
...reasons that both Olympics and elections have achieved such enormous cultural success is that they have been synchronized with a galactic quirk which dictates that every four years there must be an extra day in the calendar. These extra-long years, called leap years, are perfect for cramming in one whole extra day of commercials onto the bandwagon of monster events. Furthermore, by staging the Olympics in the same year as Presidential elections, each feeds on the hysteria generated by the other until the American public is convinced that something important is actually happening...
Nevertheless, Rather beat out Mudd for the anchor job, rankling some TV traditionalists in the process. In an effort to keep him from jumping to ABC, CBS gave Rather a record $22 million ten-year contract, a quantum leap in the pay for network journalists. The network also had to ask Cronkite politely to move up his retirement date to accommodate Rather's new contract. Cronkite agreed, but some insiders claim he was never happy about...
From which development (and other concessions wrung out of the Sandinistas by the contras) Hamilton concludes that the contras should now be cut off. Such a leap of illogic can only be achieved by appeal to the sacred text of the Arias plan. The contras have gathered support, established their legitimacy and forced open some political space. Why then destroy them? Because the "Central Americans" wish...
...atmosphere of various maturing elements and tendencies, it is hard to conceive of a presidential candidate coming up with a vision that would project a beaming future unless he were able to make an extraordinary leap of the imagination and foresee the future of the entire world. So interdependent are the world's markets and functions nowadays that any vision of America in the 21st century must logically entail America and the European Community, America and China and Japan, America and the Soviet Union, America and the planets and the stars...