Word: leape
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LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP. If you jump to a new insurer for a cheaper policy, don't cancel your old one for 59 days. That's how long the new insurer has to deny you coverage. And never let your policy lapse before getting a new one. That's a sure way to buy yourself a substantial rate increase-and a headache...
...Nomo's success?he was the 1995 National League Rookie of the Year and at week's end was 10 wins short of 100 for his major league career?led so many other pitchers to take the leap, that in 2000 Inow devised the current system of player "posting." Instead of losing talented players when they became free agents after nine seasons, Japanese clubs could now sell them to American teams...
...physics, a quantum leap means jumping to a higher level without ever stopping--indeed, without even traveling through--anywhere in between. In our ordinary understanding of things, that is impossible. In sports, it defines greatness...
...neighborhood in Cambridge, Mass., a few blocks from Harvard, on so-called Professors' Row, which real estate agents refer to as the smart street because such high-IQ figures as John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Henry Louis Gates Jr. have called it home. It was a long leap from there back to Manhattan at mid-century...
...with Davie Lerner, once a dancer with the New York City Ballet and long an amatory scholar of dance in all its forms, and watched "Isn't It a Lovely Day" from "Top Hat." Davie couldn't withhold his informed scorn about Rogers' performance: she can't make the leap, her gestures lack refinement, she's looking at her feet - she's looking at his feet! I confess the experience was deflating, like getting severe criticism of your girl friend from your best friend...