Word: leape
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While we can’t help but consider Dasgupta and Gee a little foolhardy for taking a leap of monetary faith in an organization that has proven itself financially and administratively irresponsible in the past, we do believe that the council should vote to reimburse them. Dasgupta and Gee were unfairly placed in the position of having to dip into their own pocketbooks or face the embarrassment of turning away speakers, starving hungry participants and watching the summit disintegrate before their eyes. The council must take responsibility for placing its own members in such a compromised position and pursue...
Sophomore Helena Ronner was also a two-event winner, taking the triple jump at 12.35 meters and the long jump at 5.99 meters. Ronner's winning leap in the long jump was the best in the Ivies this Outdoor season...
...America. Since its reinstatement in 1976, the death penalty has been sanitized and closeted. The rope in the town square begat Old Sparky, which begat lethal injection, both administered behind tall prison walls. Bringing executions back out into the open--not closed-circuit TV but TV--is a leap most often advocated by those who want to do away with them. They believe that capital punishment would lose the support of a civilized society if people actually saw the state commit the act for which it seeks retribution. Perhaps we should have our executions broadcast as widely as the Super...
Then Bollinger decided to leap into the information age. It paid $3 million to Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, Calif., for a suite of e-business software that promised to impose order on almost all its operations, including inventory, purchasing, project accounting and payroll. Most companies that buy an office suite start slowly, first installing the financial piece and then gradually adding new software. But Bollinger took what it calls the "big-bang" approach. It had nine shipyards working on old-fashioned systems on a Thursday and had them switched over in every area by the following Tuesday...
...battle they had fought for years. The two weeks of debate that ended Friday surprised many veterans of the Senate's joyless forced marches. The debate was both civil and principled; people listened, and some even changed their mind, persuaded by new arguments and old loyalties to make a leap of faith. No one knew as the week went on how it would turn out; every day brought another threat to the bill's survival, and the best head counters in the chamber were stumped about who would act as saboteur, who would turn out to be a savior...