Word: leape
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Taking the leap of faith of a semester or a year off can be a perfect change. Eric’s year off had all the right conditions for a productive and life-changing experience. But other situations are not as clear-cut, and these experiences should be considered, too. “Taking time off does have its consequences,” Gillis says. “And I wish I had measured those consequences more...
Despite Ruella's having little interest in fashion when she was asked to join the burgeoning business in 1991, she took a leap of faith, ?not because of zebra and leopard prints,? she laughs, referring to the prints that reappear in almost all their interiors and their work spaces, ?but because of the possibility of the numbers...
...Watch the jersey: when a player comes down from a dunk, it floats and settles around his bod the way a real uniform would. That's the kind of wildly realistic touch that makes NBA 2K6 a Kobe-size leap forward. And it translates into game play. You get more control of your player on the floort -- he way he jukes and jives to break free of a defender or shadow an attacker. You're not just triggering preset animations; you're also right there in the game. And that's where you want...
...PartyGaming's Bhargava, the world could hardly look more different from six years ago, when he took a blind leap and joined the company. After his studies in Delhi in the early 1990s, and business school, he worked at Bank of America and British Gas before heading to Mexico for a change of scenery. On a whim, he e-mailed his former college friend Dikshit, who, it turned out, had just set up a software company and was trying to develop a gaming start-up for Parasol, a lawyer by training. Parasol's history has filled the pages of British...
...Every two games, [O’Hagan] takes another leap,” Murphy said. “We don’t know how steep the curve is going to continue to be, but my sense is that he can be a championship-caliber quarterback...