Word: leape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along the way Davies populates early 20th century Canada and England with characters that leap off the page and both fascinate with their oddity and inform with their basic humanity. There is the dwarf tailor in Cornish's small town, Blairlogie, who a group of town toughs humiliate one night. Despairing, he hangs himself. Cornish sketches him in the morgue and this dwarf eventually becomes the subject of one of Cornish's greatest paintings...
Senior Doug Boyd, who won the high jump with a leap of 6-ft., 11-in., agreed with Haggerty. "We were calling people the day before the meet to make sure they'd be there," Boyd said...
...Wien, a Morgan Stanley analyst. In a recent study, the Goldman Sachs investment banking firm estimated that corporate takeovers have been responsible for nearly three-quarters of all stock gains since January 1984. Acquisitions have raised the value of target companies' shares an average of 30%. In one mighty leap, stock of Houston Natural Gas jumped from $46.865 to $67.125 in two days last May after an announcement that InterNorth was acquiring the pipeline company...
...less surprising that Even and his colleagues, Jean-Marie Andrieu and Alain Venet, had based their sensational report on tests with only two patients, one of whom had been treated for less than a week. "To draw conclusions with just a week's time frame is really a majestic leap," said Anthony Fauci, a leading AIDS investigator at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). AIDS researchers in both the U.S. and France also censured the Paris team for holding a press conference before they had presented their findings in a scientific forum. "I'm very disturbed by their method...
...cornerstone of the quantum theory holds that electrons leap from one energy state to another with mathematical regularity. Von Klitzing provided a practical demonstration of the phenomenon, accurate to within 0.0000001 of a predicted interval. For the past decade, scientists have suspected that Hall voltage conforms to quantum mechanics. "It was not expected, however," noted the Nobel Committee, "that the quantization rule would apply with such high accuracy...