Word: leape
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...high-density, high-risk locations. But Congress is not rational. The Senate gives disproportionate power to small states, and those states do not want to lose their homeland-security entitlements. So the result is a new, not-so-improved formula: one small step for homeland security, one giant leap for politicians...
...decided to expand the London-based company Stateside, with a vast distribution center in Long Island City, N.Y., offering same-day delivery to Manhattan and overnight delivery across the U.S. "Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me," says Massenet. Indeed, figures for the last financial year saw turnover leap 75%, to $72 million, and pretax profits up 62%, to $4 million...
...country." Thus a third argument that religion can't be a private affair for a presidential candidate: what a person deeply believes says something about his or her character, which voters may wish to take into account. Deeply religious people may find a candidate's ability to make that "leap of faith" admirable or even essential. Or they may find it offensive if it conflicts with their own faith. (Some devout Christians object to Mormonism's belief that the Bible is a mistranslation.) A skeptic may not want someone so credulous in the nation...
...There's another reason for the lack of political ferment: it's exhausting. Like anyone else, members of the Me generation are shaped by their experiences and those of their families. When their parents talk about the Great Leap Forward (a disastrous Mao campaign in the late 1950s that left 20 million to 30 million dead of starvation) and the subsequent chaos of the Cultural Revolution, they mostly tell horror stories that would put anyone off politics forever. That chapter in Chinese history, which officially ended with Mao's death in 1976, is ancient history to today's young...
Neil Armstrong's 1969 lunar landing may have been a giant leap for mankind, but his big, bulky spacesuit made it look more like a slow shuffle...