Word: leape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next wave of growth is being propelled by falling prices that put the cost of a machine closer to that of a household appliance. Houston-based Compaq introduced its Presario 2100 for $999 in February. Others have low-priced PCs too. Now the industry is bracing for a quantum leap in demand as people who previously couldn't afford a computer rush to buy one on the notion that one day a PC will be as indispensable as a car or TV. Compaq wanted Gateway so it could speedily add capacity to meet the new demand. But Waitt's vision...
...names and faces." (No kidding. He asked me my name twice during our first two hours of conversation.) Back in 1980 he wrote some software to help keep track of such links--"a memory substitute." The rest is history. This prosthetic extension of his mind took a vast evolutionary leap a decade later, and then grew to encompass the world. It is the reason that today you can be online looking at a photo, then mouse-click on the photographer's name to learn about her, then click on "Nikon" to see the camera she uses--traveling from computers...
...that this belief includes walking on water, rising from the dead, angels, ghosts, demons, unclean spirits and a miraculous cure for blindness, it's clear that there is an enormous mass of ignorance here. Should we be truly surprised that the Heaven's Gate leaders hoodwinked their followers? The leap from biblical beliefs to the absurdities of this particular cult is a small one. ANNE NICOL GAYLOR, President Freedom From Religion Foundation Madison, Wisconsin...
...Even the leap of moral imagination required to change one's public stance based on personal experience is too much for some politicians with gay relatives--like Phyllis Schlafly (her son), Newt Gingrich (his half-sister) or former Bush Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher (his daughter). But one-to-one conversions are no substitute for empathy. Equal rights for gays will be slow in coming if each of us has to find a gay person to love. By that standard, what would it take for a conservative to embrace the assault-weapon ban--mayhem at Starbucks? For expanded health insurance...
...Pretty much everything. Digital signals' startling improvements in visual detail and color produce a picture that looks almost 3-D compared to analog. For programming suited to a wide screen--movies and sports in particular--the leap from analog to digital could well be as striking as that from black and white to color...