Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, calendar displays are taking over ever larger sections of bookstores. One hot seller is the A-Hunk-a-Day Desk Calendar, which bears the subtitle Aren't You Glad It's Leap Year? The Buzzword-a-Day calendar, written by the authors of The Official MBA Handbook, gets the year off to a ruthless start by defining deadwood as "Anyone in your company who is more senior than you are." The Computer Desk Diary marks high-tech anniversaries like the date of Apple Computer's founding (Jan. 3). Jane Fonda's Year of Fitness...
...leap in property taxes on the University's chunk of the Fly Club garden may be one of the most dramatic in all of its enormous real estate portfolio, since it can claim exemptions on most of its land. It cannot on the Fly garden because that land is not used for educational purposes, Rosen says...
...committee members were not persuaded by Kelley's assertion that despite the embassy attack, "no one anticipated" that a terrorist using a five-ton truck would be able to crash through Marine defenses. As Maine's Senator William Cohen put it, "It's not a leap of logic to see if they bomb you with a car, they can bomb you with a truck...
Working only with the body and emotions, the 32 dancers move in groups as the music reaches crescendoes and in pairs as it softens. In large numbers the effect is both exuberant and mesmerizing as dancers leap and turn and stretch back and forth with technical precision. The piece could, in fact, probably survive with weaker technique, since the overall effect makes it difficult to concentrate on single movements. But the composition comes closer to perfection because of the clean, sharp and careful placement of each dancer...
...eighth over the left-field fencing, arming Denny with the lead for the first time. The Phillies nearly had successive homers when Bo Diaz, the next better, hit a 1-0 pitch that seemed destined to sail over the fence in left field, but John Lowenstein timed his leap perfectly and snared the ball above and beyond the fence...