Word: leape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single bodyguard, Alvaro de Jesus Agudelo, returned fire. Having desperately thrust himself through a second- story window, Escobar, clad only in jeans and a T shirt, tried to climb through a narrow metal grating leading to the roof next door. From there, he might have been able to leap to the ground and dash into a nearby wooded area. But a fusillade of machine-gun fire stopped him on the grating; hit by seven bullets in the head and neck, he crumpled to the ground...
Michigan (12-1-1) became the first team this year to garner all 27 first-place votes on the strength of a two-game sweep of Western Michigan. And the two Hockey East powerhouses? BU swept Merrimack to leap up and claim the second spot in the nation, while pesky Northeastern split two with Maine and dropped the Black Bears two slots to fourth...
...market, though. In large corporations, very few Asians have reached senior-executive rank. The reason, in part at least, seems to be a kind of cultural Great Wall that blinds management to what Asians expect in the workplace. Says J.D. Hokoyama, president of the national nonprofit organization known as LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian-Pacifics): "In America a worker comes into my office and asks for a promotion. Asians don't do that...
...China's leap forward is still hampered by its rigid politics -- and the prospect that the system could soon change dramatically. The man who was not there in Seattle but who figuratively sat in on all the meetings was Deng Xiaoping, China's senior leader and chief reformer. Deng, now 89 and very frail, is China's last emperor -- the tail end of the charismatic generation of military and political leaders who held power alone, and he is not likely to rule China much longer...
Whatever the strengths of Timon, NAT is not remotely worthy of comparison with London's Royal National and Royal Shakespeare companies or Canada's Shaw and Stratford festivals. If Timon is a great leap forward, Randall's next vehicle, The Government Inspector, could be a big jump back. He plays the title role, a naif of 23 -- an age Randall reached half a century ago. The irrepressible farceur says with a mildly manic laugh, "I'd like to be acting every night of my life. That's why I formed this theater." His tone sobering, he adds, "In a noncommercial...