Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief, wrote the Feinstein story. Moritz points out that in San Francisco, female politicians now wield considerable power: six of eleven municipal supervisors are women, and so are the city treasurer and two of the area's congressional representatives. Sums up Moritz: "Feinstein has had to work harder, leap higher barriers and endure more political setbacks than most of the men who came before her. And the city is working better than it has in 20 years...
...raising the monthly payment from $750 to $825. The sudden increase, which amounted to an extra $900 a year, forced the strapped couple, who have four children, to visit a credit counselor and to cut back on expenses like hot lunches at work. The Christensens are bracing for another leap in their payments because interest rates are continuing to climb...
...scheduled for Seoul in 1988. After the television rights to the 1988 Whiter Games in Calgary were sold to ABC for $309 million ($218 million more than its winning bid for the Sarajevo competition), some broadcast analysts speculated that the rights to the Seoul Games would take a dizzying leap toward the billion-dollar mark. Now, with only a month to go before the rights are awarded, that estimate has been scaled back sharply. Similarly, U.S. and West European firms that regularly establish commercial tie-ins with the quadrennial Games may prove more cautious than ever in becoming associated with...
...this and fails to be impressed is just immune to sensitivity." Agreed Angier Biddle Duke, a Democrat who had served as Ambassador to El Salvador in 1952-53: "The U.S. spent chicken feed here, and in return for that investment we have seen El Salvador take a quantum leap forward in its democratic process. Americans can take pride in helping El Salvador take its place among the democratic nations of the world." Upon their return to the U.S., the official observers issued a joint statement calling the election an "overwhelming repudiation" of the guerrillas...
Reagan's great leap forward with the Chinese was actually a return to the more amicable ties established by Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter. In his first two years in office, Reagan neglected the People's Republic and boosted arms sales to Taiwan, despite a 1982 promise by the U.S. not to do so. Taiwan, Deng warned Reagan last week, remains a "knot" in Sino-American relations...