Word: leape
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...major leap forward for Verizon Wireless, this is the carrier's first phone to combine true voice recognition with a speakerphone and wireless connectivity for headsets...
...back in the game against IBM. Burroughs had fallen so far behind that it found itself utterly dwarfed by its larger rival. Burroughs' solution? Undertake the then largest merger in computer history: buy Sperry Corp. and create a new company--dubbed Unisys--as a single-step leap to greatness...
...They changed the way that I looked at understanding history,” Bennett said. “It was very easy...to make the leap to documentary journalism and its importance in influencing how people see the world. I apply those lessons almost every...
Reaching the barred window near the front door, Bellavia tells two soldiers to perch by the house corner and watch for insurgents trying to leap out the side window. He looks at Staff Sergeant Scott Lawson and says, "You're f______ coming. Give suppressive fire at 45 degrees." Bellavia and Lawson step nervously into the house. From the living room, Bellavia rounds the corner into the hallway. The insurgents are still alive. Their AK-47s fire. Bellavia fires back, killing them both. "Two f_____s down," he says...
...Arafat couldn't make the final leap of faith. To reach an agreement with Israel on a Palestinian state, Arafat knew, would require deep compromises on what have become almost sacred demands among his people: that traditionally Arab East Jerusalem, including Islamic holy sites in the Old City, become part of Palestine and that Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war that followed Israel's creation be allowed to return to their homes in what is now Israel. At the time of Camp David in 2000, Arafat's "obsession," an aide said, was that if he made those concessions, he would...