Word: leape
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fact is that the presidential candidate is one small step for Barbie, one giant leap for womankind. Never before has there been a female President doll, regardless of her physical figure or her dress. President Barbie is the same "woman" who can be anything she wants to be--including a wonderful example for young girls. She has certainly come a long way from where she started, as a 1960s fashion model...
...biggest performance by a Crimson athlete other than Gyorffy, Schutte and Taylor came from freshman Helena Ronner. With a leap of 5.98 meters, she placed second in the long jump...
...that game-tying hit never came. Quattrocchi struck out Godfree, then walked Abeles on a questionable ball four call that caused the Dartmouth bench to leap up in anger. Quattrocchi settled down and beat McKendry on a called third strike, ending the game...
...speediness results from its ability to trigger the recipient's e-mail program to send a copy of itself to everyone listed in the program's address book. This means a copy of the virus is quickly dispatched to listservs, client lists and internal mailing lists, enabling it to leap city, country and continent borders at incredible speed...
...would be easy to dismiss The Leap as just another self-satisfied saga of risking it all on a dotcom dream. Don't. Ashbrook's tale of how he went from disillusioned newspaperman to co-founder of the home-design empire HomePortfolio.com serves up heavy doses of self-examination and occasional melodrama ("Maybe we don't get to choose our madness"). But it is saved by self-deprecating humor and gut-wrenching suspense (Will the money run out? Will his wife?). By the end, you're praying for this guy to make...