Word: leape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...choice to defer--postponing graduate or professional school in favor of a short-term commitment--was an attractive option for many seniors. With the pressures of the "real world" looming, some chose to defer, while others have decided to leap directly into their long-term careers...
Indeed, that is where we are now, each of us, on the highest diving board there is, with the world sprawled out below us. We have a Harvard diploma. We can be anything we want to be. Most of us have made the leap, but I keep waiting for inspiration to strike, waiting for a way out of accepting the need to jump...
...decision to make the leap from teaching, which she focused on for two years at the College, to that of administrating happened in part because she thought she could be an example of someone who had gone into an "eccentric" career, she says...
...that Robert Skinner Boyd made a rather large leap in 1993. The veteran political reporter stepped down as Knight Ridder's Washington Bureau Chief to become its Washington science writer...
...this time, as we say in Tennessee and Texas, you've ripped your britches," wrote James Dunn of the Baptist Joint Committee, whose group favors a clear separation between church and state. "The notion that public funds will not alter the religious character of faith-based programs requires a leap of faith that even Kierkegaard could not negotiate...