Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cordiality apparent during Weinberger's trip does not mean there will be a great leap forward in U.S.-China relations. The Chinese, as Premier Zhao Ziyang told Weinberger, are waiting to see if U.S. words will be "proved by deeds and actions." The U.S. must worry whether Peking is using it mainly as a pawn in its closer-to-home struggle with the U.S.S.R. But for an Administration that early this summer announced plans to sell Taiwan $800 million in arms, relations are perhaps better than could have been anticipated...
...then-Committee Chairman William Brock devising campaign strategies that were to help bring about a Republican comeback in 1980. "When you're in the party out of power, things are a lot easier." Teeley recalls. "You can fairly attack the administration, take offense at their every mistake and gleefully leap upon them...
...That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind...
...what happens now, when it seems equally clear that antiutopias do not work either? It may be that the world will give up on futuristic visions. That seems unlikely. The mind, inquisitive to the end, seems to leap forward by reflex. Still, after several centuries...
envisioning both the best and the worst, it probably will not leap too far forward these days. We may have come to a point where people will be looking not to new machines but to repairs...