Word: leaping
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...medical researchers seeking treatments and vaccines for the deadly disease. The limited value of research on baboons and chimpanzees, among other beasts, creates an urgency to move swiftly to tests on humans. Last week, after months of rumors within the scientific community, it was confirmed that this dramatic leap has been taken in vaccine research. In a letter in the British journal Nature, Dr. Daniel Zagury, an AIDS investigator at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, described a bold experiment: he had inoculated himself in November with a potential AIDS vaccine...
More important, perhaps, the purchase of AMC's Jeep line helps Chrysler, which has led the way with such innovations as the minivan, leap into a market segment where it is not represented: the fast-growing sport-utility line. Some 732,000 sport-utility vehicles, including such models as the Jeep Cherokee, Ford Bronco II and Chevy S-10 Blazer, were sold last year, offering a new kind of competition to the suburban station wagon. That total could reach 1 million...
...serious test of outlining the priorities of a Dole Administration. So far, he has provided little more than a legislative shopping list of proposals for dealing with the deficit, trade and other matters. Even supporters suggest that Dole's immersion in the details of legislation has blocked the mental leap to a broad-gauge view of national leadership required of a presidential candidate. Says his political consultant David Keene: "Legislative experience teaches you to be tactical and think on an ad hoc basis. He's got to reach inside himself and talk about what he believes and what he sees...
...first hard evidence that Deng was slipping came on Feb. 16, when major Chinese newspapers published a 1962 speech he made attacking Mao Tse-tung for both his one-man rule and his disastrous economic policies during the Great Leap Forward of 1958-60. Some observers took this as an attack on Deng's own leadership. Said one Asian diplomat: "I can't believe Deng wanted that old speech to be printed. It is too easy to interpret as an attack on himself...
...fifth overall in last year's HEPS, were again led by Co-Captain Erin Sugrue. Sugrue won the high jump with a jump of 5-ft., 7 3/4-in. and also took second in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 8.17 and in the triple jump with a leap of 11.50 meters...