Word: leape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...higher percentage than any other nation devotes to health. But the U.S. health system may be one of the few instances of social pathology that truly deserve to be compared to cancer. < It grows uncontrollably -- in terms of dollars -- but seems to become more dysfunctional with every metastatic leap...
...challenge is far greater. Working alongside a President she outspokenly disagrees with, she has been the leader in seeking a negotiated agreement with Moscow to give Lithuania its independence. An economist for much of her 47 years, Prunskiene has become Lithuania's voice of reason. She made the short leap from economics to politics two years ago when she helped found Sajudis, the independence movement. "I was very unhappy seeing what should be done but was not done," she says. From the beginning she has reached out for Western expertise and advice...
...then they went nuts. Totally nuts. It was a small sprint for a 'shmen, a giant leap for 'shmenkind. And it'll make a damn fine wall decoration...
...easy confirmation. Souter's low-key, courteous performance was so skillful that the final 90-to-9 vote for his confirmation on the Senate floor last week sparked little emotional debate. Kate Michelman, director of the National Abortion Rights Action League, simply called the Senate vote a "dangerous leap of faith...
...scientist for the Forest Service," Lynch says. "He would drive me through the woods in his green Forest Service truck, over dirt roads, through the most beautiful forests where the trees are very tall and shafts of sunlight come down and in the mountain streams the rainbow trout leap out and their little trout sides catch glimpses of light. Then my father would drop me in the woods and go off. It was a weird, comforting feeling being in the woods. There were odd, mysterious things. That's the kind of world I grew...