Word: leape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events in their last career meet. Chris "Robertson copped the 400-meter run with a time of 49.9, and Steve Pinney leapt to victory with a pole vault of 14-ft., 6-in Pinney also took third in the high jump with a 6-ft., 6-in. leap...
...captains wrapped up their Crimson track careers with solid performances. Rob Gustafson placed second in the long jump with a leap of 21-ft., 3 1/4-in., and Steve Abbey captured third in 110-meter hurdles with a time...
...thing, the IBM scientists had lacked the sensitive equipment to test for the Meissner effect, the surest proof of superconductivity, and thus could not confirm it in their report. More important, in a field where improvements of a few degrees were reason for celebration, this great a temperature leap seemed unlikely. Douglas Finnemore, a physicist at Iowa State University, admits that he was among the doubters. "Our group read the paper," he says. "We held a meeting and decided there was nothing...
Sugrue nabbed second place in the triple jump with a leap of 36-ft., 71/2-in., just ahead of teammate Manda Schossberger. The freshman leaped 36-ft., 1/4-in., to capture third in the event...
Quantum's great leap in profits began with the move upward by the Dow from a level in the mid-1300s in August 1985. Soros caught the market wave by investing heavily not only in U.S. stocks but also in very volatile stock- index and currency futures. These can multiply returns many times over, or, conversely, produce huge losses. Now the largest so-called hedge fund, Quantum uses its stock and bond portfolio as collateral to buy more stocks and securities...