Word: leape
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...addressed a citizenry with differences so deep that sometimes, he said, "it seems we share a continent but not a country." George W. Bush's promise to restore honor to the office could not be kept just by wearing his tie every day or learning a crisp salute. A leap of faith is not something that can be faked or borrowed or bought. A man who always said he trusted his team would have to trust himself even more; a man with no use for alliances would have to build the biggest, unlikeliest one ever. And when the enemy honors...
...reform bill finally made it out of conference committee after five months of often bitter negotiations, three of the bill's original architects, Democratic senators Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh, took a few minutes to gloat. Over danishes and coffee they called the bill "revolutionary," "a quantum leap" and "the real thing." Later in the day, President Bush pronounced the reforms "historic" and Ohio Republican John Boehner, who ushered the bill through the House, proclaimed, "These landmark reforms will bring purpose to a federal law that has lost its focus and never met its promise...
...barrage against its facilities made such action impossible. European and U.N. diplomats are insisting that the only way for the Palestinian leader to save his political hide is to crack down hard on Hamas and Islamic Jihad. But that may be wishful thinking, now. It would take an extraordinary leap of the imagination to picture a leader whose epic powerlessness in the face of Sharon is being underlined to his own people on an hourly basis - Arafat is holed up in Ramallah unable to move, with Israeli tanks literally on his doorstep - persuading his security forces to round up fellow...
...penury of the pro tour--which features X Games-inspired short-course, head-to-head races--was a shock, one Schlopy thought he needed. "The sums of money are so little that you have to do well if you want to keep going. It was a total leap of faith." Schlopy earned less than $100,000 in three seasons, which went to cover his expenses, but he was rookie of the year in 1995 and easily posted the top results of any American...
...other two event winners for the Crimson were freshman Eleanor Thompson, who took the 60-meter hurdles for the second weekend in a row in a season-best time of 9.10 seconds, and Liz Cutright-Smith who won the triple jump with a 10.69-meter leap...