Word: leape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is no mere book of dress or etiquette--it is a systematic program to change one's person and lifestyle, to the ways of the winners. Of course, before embarking on this crusade of conformity, one must make the unstated leap and accept Molloy's assumption that the successful life is one devoted to "Money, Power and Status." Those with artistic or humanitarian goals need not apply...
...billion for defense-related activities), from $182.8 billion in the current fiscal year. That would be an increase of 10.5% even after adjustment for an expected inflation rate of 7.6% in defense items. "Total obligational authority," the Pentagon's right to sign contracts for future spending, would leap to $258 billion, a 13.2% inflation-adjusted rise. The plans constitute what is almost a do-everything-at-once policy. Reagan argues that "critical investments" are needed in a long list of missiles, bombers, cargo planes, ships, tanks and funds for training and readiness in order to make up for years...
Ordinarily one does not advertise in this space, but occasionally commerce and virtue coincide. Behold the Graffiti Gobbler-"the first effective, no mix, inexpensive formula that quickly and easily removes graffiti without harming the original appearance of the surface." (Did you feel your heart leap?) Already proved successful in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Detroit and Windsor, Ont. (Canadian graffiti?), the "spray-on, wipe-off' Gobbler is right now being tested on the New York City subways, the end of the line. If it works there, its Australian inventor, Norman Shuttleworth, will be the Emperor of Gotham. No fame will equal...
...meet began with the Nick Saunders and Mark Henry Show, as Terrier Saunders took the triple jump with a leap of 49 ft. 5 1/2 in., and the Crimson's Henry won the long jump battle over N.U.'s Russ Hartman, thrusting himself through the air to 23 ft. 10 1/4 in. Saunders and Henry also finished one-two respectively in the 60-yd. dash, and Saunders took the high jump while Henry placed fourth in the triple jump...
...distracting, and finally irritating. The very loving care and vividity lavished on these scenes have a subversive effect on the audience. Like it or not the scenes have a subversive effect on the audience. Like it or not the scenes acted onstage have an immediacy that only a leap of imagination can put into their needed perspective...